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To: TheWormster

"Darwin had a theory. Specifically he had a theory to explain the diversity of life that we see around us. It is a theory because it makes predictions, is testable and is falsifiable... However, while ID claims to be a theory, it is not. It is not a theory because it makes no testable, falsifiable predictions."

While there are conflicting views within the ID camp, I have made an ID centric hypothesis which is testable and falsifiable. I do not describe ID as a theory because, in addition to your criteria, we also need some level of verification. This could take the form of test results or a statistical model. Neither of these have been accomplished.

My testable, falsifiable ID statement is:

"Due to information complexity and interdependence, no living organism can ever spontaneously arise from lifeless matter which exists in a naturally occurring state, but life can be created."

For more elaboration and defense of this claim please see an earlier post:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1543993/posts?page=1488#1488


1,717 posted on 12/21/2005 6:04:34 AM PST by unlearner (You will never come to know that which you do not know until you first know that you do not know it.)
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To: unlearner
... no living organism can ever spontaneously arise from lifeless matter ...

Have fun fulfilling this part of the prediction. You will have to anticipate every possible scenario for unguided abiogenesis.

1,766 posted on 12/21/2005 8:19:54 AM PST by VadeRetro (Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
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