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To: HankReardon
What would be not scientific about proposing that all and everything did not just accidently happen?

Nobody has proposed that everything "just accidentally happened". That's just a strawman. But still, saying that "everything is an accident" or "not everything is an accident" would not constitute a scientific theory, because it doesn't make predictions, it isn't falsifiable, and it doesn't unite disparate phenomena into a coherent framework. It's just philosophy.

6 posted on 10/31/2003 6:27:11 AM PST by Physicist
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To: Physicist
If the intelligent designer is eliminated from the "how did all things come to be" discussion, then yes, it would be meant to believe that all things happend by accident and not deliberate intent.
30 posted on 10/31/2003 8:28:05 AM PST by HankReardon
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To: Physicist
It's just philosophy.

Out of curiosity, how do you define philosophy? This is one of those words that people seem to have a lot of different personal definitions for (as well as the several that exist in the dictionary). Just curious.

194 posted on 11/03/2003 2:56:40 PM PST by Prodigal Son
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