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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: brent1a

Bravo. You've committed two logical fallacies: Moving the Goal Posts and Appeal to Numbers.

An hypothesis is not made valid by the number of people that accept it, but whether or not it can be tested experimentally. Experiments can and have been designed to test irreducible complexity, which is the observation on which ID is based. Additional experiments can be designed around Dembski's mathematical treatments of specified complexity and information theory.

A little less demagoguery and a little more experimentation would be to the credit of the biological community.

When cold fusion was proposed, scientists expressed their doubts, and went on to demonstrate it in the laboratory. Still waiting for the Darwinist crowd to get off their Aristotalean behinds, roll up their sleeves, and actually do some experiments to support their criticism of ID.

But, no, instead they rant and rave and sidestep the issue by yelling that because ID is non-scientific they don't HAVE to perform any experiments to test or disprove it. THAT is a non-scientific position.


148 posted on 12/03/2005 7:09:03 PM PST by frgoff
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