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To: GSHastings
Although intelligent design is often very hard to detect, especially with computer software, it obviously is possible to prove that intelligent design exists, abundantly.

But how can you demonstrate that intelligent design is present if you can't point to a hypothetical counterexample?

Whether or not it is "falsifiable"...you tell me?

It's not my responsibility to demonstrate that ID is a worthwhile explanation. IF you assert that ID can be detected, it's up to you to demonstrate that it's possible to hypothetically falsify the explanation. An explanation that can't be hypothetically falsified is fundamentally worthless because there's no way to determine what qualifies as evidence for your argument.
711 posted on 08/17/2005 10:07:24 PM PDT by Dimensio (http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif <-- required reading before you use your next apostrophe!)
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To: Dimensio; GSHastings
An explanation that can't be hypothetically falsified is fundamentally worthless because there's no way to determine what qualifies as evidence for your argument.

An explanation that can "handle" any finding at all is not an explanation. It is not telling you anything about the world. It may appear to have some sort of content. ("The world is a dream being dreamt by a giant turtle!" "The world was made Last Thursday with all of our memories intact!") However, it tells you nothing about what you can expect to see, nothing at all about what you can rule out ever seeing.

723 posted on 08/18/2005 5:39:14 AM PDT by VadeRetro (Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
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To: Dimensio
But how can you demonstrate that intelligent design is present if you can't point to a hypothetical counterexample?

And so, your counterexample that would disprove evolution is what?

I can at least prove that intelligent design is a reality in the universe. Can you prove that evolution is a reality in the universe? How?

736 posted on 08/18/2005 12:09:38 PM PDT by GSHastings
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