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To: Right Wing Professor

True. ID doesn't belong in science class. Why? Because it doesn't adhere to scientific method.


43 posted on 12/03/2005 6:09:38 PM PST by spetznaz (Nuclear-tipped Ballistic Missiles: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol)
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To: spetznaz
True. ID doesn't belong in science class. Why? Because it doesn't adhere to scientific method.

The scientific method:

  1. Observe
  2. Hypothesize
  3. Experiment
  4. Observe Experimental Results
  5. Revise Hypothesis

Which part of the scientific method does ID not follow?

Is it observation? No, because the hypothesis was generated by observing biological systems and noting that they were irreducibly complex.

Is it hypothesis? No, because based on the observation of IC, and knowing that Darwinism cannot explain such systems, the hypothesis of Intelligent Design was postulated.

Was it Experiment? No, because experiments have been done to determine if IC systems in certain bacteria are indeed IC.

Was it observing experimental results? No, because the observations that bacterium with proteins removed from an IC system could only be kept alive by providing them a non-natural diet that compensated for the missing protein.

Was it revising the hypothesis? No, because when the arch theory was proposed to explain IC systems, the ID hypothesis was re-examined to see if this explanation invalidated the theory.

Please explain to me how ID does not use the scientific method.

74 posted on 12/03/2005 6:26:48 PM PST by frgoff
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