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To: Virginia-American
There is no way, not even in principle, that ID could be falsified, because we're free to postulate anything we want to about the hypothetical designer. ID has no explanatory power at all - absolutely any observation is consistent with it, since the designer is not restricted in any way.

That's not necessarily correct. If I were to suggest an ID, it would fit the observations made in nature. Which is, that the code tends to be hacked to fit current needs, that copy/paste is used, and that bugs are introduced. Very, very much like software development as we know it. So, if I were to suggest a single "designer", I would suspect they are way overworked. I would, I think, suggest multiple "designers" and "coders" and suspect that some of the sub-contractors are not too hot at what they do, while others are brilliant. And I suggest that that explanation fits the observed results also.

And here is falsifiable statement for ID. I bet that if my (half-joking) statement is correct, somewhere in the DNA we will find some "comment" statements (maybe in the so-called "junk" DNA). So here you go. If no "comment" statement is ever found, then this half-joke ID theory has been falsified. So all that is required to disprove this half-joke ID, is to show that the "junk" DNA contains no coding comments.

2,113 posted on 08/09/2003 9:29:58 PM PDT by dark_lord (The Statue of Liberty now holds a baseball bat and she's yelling 'You want a piece of me?')
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To: dark_lord; Virginia-American
If no "comment" statement is ever found, then this half-joke ID theory has been falsified.

I know you say it tongue in cheek but this has proposal has been put forth before to which I ask what would the "comment" look like? Is it written in english? In novel nucleotides?

2,117 posted on 08/09/2003 9:33:06 PM PDT by RightWingNilla
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