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To: Tribune7
ID explanation has more evidence

Really? What is this evidence for design? All I have ever seen are arguments from incredulity that claim that things could not have evolved. When presented with possible evolutionary paths, IDers typically just repeat their argument from incredulity rather than providing actual evidence for design. BTW, arguments from the experience of design are irrelevant here. Nobody has observed the design of a biological system. The experience of design comes from a knowledge of the history of design in a system. We don't have knowledge of the history of design in the biological systems under question. To claim that experience is evidence for design is assuming the conclusion.

352 posted on 03/01/2005 8:57:57 AM PST by stremba
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To: stremba
What is this evidence for design?

It's the observation that in all functionally integrated complex systems where the cause is known a designer is involved.

Nobody has observed the design of a biological system.

So if life is created in a lab, ID is established? The point is that the biological systems resemble known designed systems. The solution is to declare the existence of God (as Bacon did) then proceed from there. The stakes become much less culturally dangerous and much less time is wasted in silly arguments.

372 posted on 03/01/2005 11:17:34 AM PST by Tribune7
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