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To: The_Reader_David
ID as proposed is not a scientific theory, as the attempts to make it falsifiable are based on a priori probability estimates that are neither falsifiable nor verifiable.

I am curious. What happens to Darwinism and evolution when the same criteria is applied to them?

15 posted on 01/18/2007 7:51:32 PM PST by LiteKeeper (Beware the secularization of America; the Islamization of Eurabia)
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To: LiteKeeper

That depends. Working biologists 'reformulate natural selection so that it is very far from tautological' (in the words of Sir Karl Popper's famous 'recantation' of his view that Darwinism is not scientific). Polemicists who want Darwinism to support atheistic extra-scientific commitments go out of their way to ramify the actual theory to make it unfalsifiable.


17 posted on 01/18/2007 8:41:09 PM PST by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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