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To: inquest
The fact is, anything that exists, in reality, and has an observable effect on the real world, can properly be the subject of a scientific theoretical model. Whatever label you put on it doesn't change that fact.

When you make a scientific hypothesis about something that exists, be it a unicorn, a quark or a designer, you are assigning properties to it, properties that can be tested. A thing that can do anything or everything cannot be the object of scientific investigation. If it has no limits then you can't propose a situation where its actions can be distinguished.

1,255 posted on 09/27/2005 8:55:53 PM PDT by js1138 (Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.)
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To: js1138
A thing that can do anything or everything cannot be the object of scientific investigation. If it has no limits then you can't propose a situation where its actions can be distinguished.

Sure you can. If you can rule out all causes for a phenomenon that aren't of an omnipotent nature, then you're left with one choice.

That's of course even assuming that ID theory posits an omnipotent designer, which it doesn't. It only posits an intelligent designer - one that can act with foresight.

1,260 posted on 09/28/2005 6:51:05 AM PDT by inquest (FTAA delenda est)
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