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To: Question_Assumptions

ID will be real science when it puts forth an alternative history that can be tested. It might stand or fall, but it would be science.


968 posted on 09/22/2005 10:00:44 AM PDT by js1138 (Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.)
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ID will be real science when it puts forth an alternative history that can be tested. It might stand or fall, but it would be science.

You keep saying it over and over again but you never really address the inconvenient details of my problems with this assertion or the answers I give to your claim. ID's alternative history is that an intelligent agent had some role in the deliberate creation of life and that this theory can be tested by looking at complex biological systems to determine if they could have arisen through a natural process or not. This is almost exactly like looking for evidence of life on Mars by looking at geological or chemical features to determine if they could have arisen through a natural process or as the byproduct of life. Do you consider the search for life on Mars science or not? Please answer this question. Would you object to having students in a public school being taught that some scientists believe that Mars may have once had life or believe that life exists on other worlds in the universe without direct evidence to support them? Please answer this question.

What's really frightening me is how much this is reminding me of debating abortion...

978 posted on 09/22/2005 10:44:27 AM PDT by Question_Assumptions
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