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To: Zeroisanumber
When the proponents of ID produce a testable hypothesisI promise that we'll start calling it science instead of philosophy. Until then...

I doubt it, because the hypothesis is testable now. It has been mathematically defined (specified complexity, information theory) and can therefore be experimentally tested. Darwinists, on the other hand, can't even decide on an empirical definition of species yet go about boldly proclaiming we all descended from one.

95 posted on 12/03/2005 6:35:26 PM PST by frgoff
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To: frgoff

Provide the testable hypothesis that has been categorically accepted throughout the world by all scientists, pro or non, right or left.
Please.


98 posted on 12/03/2005 6:37:06 PM PST by brent1a
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To: frgoff
I doubt it, because the hypothesis [ID] is testable now. It has been mathematically defined (specified complexity, information theory)

No, at least two things wrong here.

1) There is no proof that something with a high "specified complexity" cannot be the outcome of evolution. I have no idea that such a statement is provable at all, but it's never been done.

2) Assume, as though it were possible, that 1) were proven true. At best, the demonstration that some biological system were "specifically complex" would tend to falsify ToE. How would it be evidence for ID? ID "theory" does not predict that "specifically complex" things exist, so how could finding such a thing count as evidence for ID?

164 posted on 12/03/2005 7:18:24 PM PST by Virginia-American
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