Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: snarks_when_bored
Is there any conceivable discovery that might be made about life here on Earth that would be capable of definitively falsifying the creationism/intelligent design account of what's going on here?

One such discovery would be putting a mix of chemicals in a test tube, waiting a while and seeing a human race emerge.

***

Earlier on the thread, you mentioned that the evolution theory predicts an absence of certain fossils in certain strata. True, -- but surely intelligent design theory predicts the same thing? Note that intelligent design does not insist on a different trajectory along which species gradually emerged, -- it merely says that the observable trajectory would not have been there if the process were entirely driven by random mutations.

17 posted on 01/20/2005 3:44:39 PM PST by annalex
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies ]


To: annalex
One such discovery would be putting a mix of chemicals in a test tube, waiting a while and seeing a human race emerge.

Life didn't come to be in a test tube. And do you mean by "a while" 500 million years (or more), which is what it is likely to take? Clearly, you're joking about this. On the other hand, it could happen tomorrow that a 50-million-year-old layer of sediment is dug up that contains a fossil that falsifies current evolutionary accounts of the developmental history of life on Earth.

19 posted on 01/20/2005 3:51:34 PM PST by snarks_when_bored
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson