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To: bobdsmith
If Intelligent Design is true we would expect nature to look differently than if it wasn't.

Why do you say that? An expectation about what Creation is supposed to look like is an a priori philosophical or theological premise rather than a scientific argument.

Cordially,

212 posted on 04/27/2005 9:20:33 AM PDT by Diamond (Qui liberatio scelestus trucido inculpatus.)
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To: Diamond
If Intelligent Design is true we would expect nature to look differently than if it wasn't.

Why do you say that? An expectation about what Creation is supposed to look like is an a priori philosophical or theological premise rather than a scientific argument.

Intelligent Design in capitals is a movement that argues that it has a scientific model for life on Earth that best fits the current data (fossil record, genetics, etc).

Yet this proposed Intelligent Design model is so general and vague that it would actually fit any set of data, not just the set that actually is.

This means that no matter what discoveries are made in the future it is not possible that they would challenge Intelligent Design. Therefore Intelligent Design is not testable and so isn't science, as even hypothese in science must be testable (ie potentially falsifiable) given future data.

221 posted on 04/27/2005 11:51:50 AM PDT by bobdsmith
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