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To: allmendream

IMO, whether one believes in ID or naturalism, experimentation involves theories, testability and repeatability. Of course, ID’ers have a reverence for life which would proscribe certain experiments from taking place. Cloning attempts, e.g. BTW, Your bitterness is shining through with your name-calling, Sir. Bob


166 posted on 03/07/2011 12:33:09 PM PST by alstewartfan ("He's only come to bring another perfect dream." Al Stewart from "Shah of Shahs")
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To: alstewartfan
Yes, the theory is evolution through natural selection of genetic variation, it is tested every time a novel antibiotic is used, and repeatably - new resistance is evolved.

If I take a single bacteria and let it grow, then plate it on ten plates and subject it to ten stresses; I can repeatably get it to “adapt”/”evolve” to be resistant to those ten different stresses through novel variations that are selected for in that environment.

Supernatural explanation for natural phenomena is a dead end that leads to no further information use or discovery.

Natural explanation for natural phenomena is called “science” and the technological world we live in owes it all to science - not supernaturalism.

167 posted on 03/07/2011 12:37:12 PM PST by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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