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To: Michael_Michaelangelo
Sorry, but I don't bother reading material that headlines itself with a logical fallacy right off the top:

...the existence of even one intelligently designed feature in living things (at least prior to human beings) would overturn the Darwinian theory of evolution that currently dominates Western biology.

This is of course false. There is nothing within evolutionary science that precludes the existence of even one intelligently designed feature in living things, or even thousands for that matter.

It's a shame, however, that with the bar set so exceedingly and ridiculously low ("even one") the ID preachers can't come up with even that..

5 posted on 05/17/2004 1:32:08 PM PDT by AntiGuv (When the countdown hits zero - something's gonna happen..)
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To: AntiGuv
Sorry, but I don't bother reading material that headlines itself with a logical fallacy right off the top:

"...the existence of even one intelligently designed feature in living things (at least prior to human beings) would overturn the Darwinian theory of evolution that currently dominates Western biology."

Ah. I see. One example of a biological feature unexplainable by modern Darwinian theories is no basis for rejection of present theories, but one example of biological claim you believe to be fallacious is enough to discard the entire essay which contains it. Nope, no hypocrisy here.

Btw, even if that assertion is wrong, it is not set up as a logical fallacy. Things which are incorrect are not de facto logical fallacies. Using one unrelated argument to "disprove" something else, however, is. Just for your consideration...

9 posted on 05/17/2004 2:47:33 PM PDT by explodingspleen (When life gets complex, multiply by the complex conjugate.)
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To: AntiGuv
There is nothing within evolutionary science that precludes the existence of even one intelligently designed feature in living things, or even thousands for that matter.

At least not your version. My experience on FR is that there is a different version of evolution for each pro-evolutionary poster on FR. Some say macro-evolution is total 100% fact (orionblamblam), most back off of abiogenesis if you are forceful, and some even state the macro-evolution is a theory, not scientific fact. Its hard to keep track of all the versions that are out there. There is hardly a consensus among evolutionists here.
25 posted on 05/17/2004 5:53:52 PM PDT by microgood
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