Can YOU provide empirical evidence of ID?
“Can YOU provide empirical evidence of ID?”
Absolutely not. No one can, because it’s not science. It’s a set of beliefs based on certain observations and assumptions. No one was here to watch the earth and the universe formed so there’s no way to say what happened. And there is no way to conclusively test for God, either. It’s a matter of faith.
But Evolution is not science, either. At least not the way it’s taught today in school. It’s also based on lots of assumptions and ‘could have happened’ scenarios which can’t be repeated, which is not how science is done. Evolution can’t actually be tested in a lab or observed to have happened because it takes so long.
Just to be clear, I’m separating Evolution from Natural Selection. NS can be evaluated under controlled conditions, and there are probably millions of times it’s been tested and observed. But there have been no observations of NS causing a new species to develop (except for the ridiculous twisting of the concept of ‘species’ to include ‘Ring Species’ and such).
My whole issue with Evolution is that it has practically destroyed the concept of science. It used to be that if something could not be tested and observed then no scientist would assert their ideas as fact. Now we have many downright silly statements coming from supposed scientists that are in opposition to the most basic scientific principles.
For example, Dawkins said that ID could be possible if aliens came from another planet and planted the seeds of life BUT it would only be possible to have aliens on another planet if they evolved. Yes, I realize he doesn’t believe in aliens and all that, but the point I want to make is that he makes an unscientific conclusion if he says that the ONLY way aliens could come from another planet is if they had evolved. How does he know that this is the only way it could have happened? Has he surveyed every planet in every galaxy? Was he there to examine the data?
This is the stuff I am talking about. It is normal nowadays for highly regarded scientists to make all sorts of untestable statements as fact and no one points out how ridiculous it is. Dawkins’ statements are nothing more than a dogmatic assertion, something usually regarded as ‘faith’ or ‘belief’ in any other context but accepted as conclusive when the great Oracle of Evolution speaks.