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To: untrained skeptic; Dimensio

one disproves a theory by:
1. making predictions of what one expects to see in a given scenario, based on the theory
2. making predictions of what one DOES NOT expect to see in a given scenario, based on the theory.

If one subsequently observes the UNEXPECTED result in the given scenario, the theory is falsified.

one way the ToE would be falsified would be if saltation from one high-order taxa to another was observed, either directly or in the fossil record.

one way relativity would be falsified would be if matter was observed to accelerate from below C to beyond C.

As ID has so far NEVER defined the limits and nature of the designer or its/their powers, IDiots remain free to "move the goalposts" at whim. ID is thus not falsifiable on those grounds alone.

That wasn't a particularly difficult walk, was it?


666 posted on 09/29/2005 10:01:27 AM PDT by King Prout (19sep05 - I want at least 2 Saiga-12 shotguns. If you have leads, let me know)
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To: balrog666; PatrickHenry

neener neener neeeee-nerrrrr!


668 posted on 09/29/2005 10:33:16 AM PDT by King Prout (19sep05 - I want at least 2 Saiga-12 shotguns. If you have leads, let me know)
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To: King Prout

Somehow, it suits you.


671 posted on 09/29/2005 10:43:00 AM PDT by PatrickHenry (Disclaimer -- this information may be legally false in Kansas.)
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To: King Prout

"That wasn't a particularly difficult walk, was it?"

No it was actually too simple.

You're basing your proof on a false premise that there evolution can only take one path and cannot have multiple branches and that those multiple branches might result in what might appear as contradictions in the fossil record.

"As ID has so far NEVER defined the limits and nature of the designer or its/their powers, IDiots remain free to "move the goalposts" at whim. ID is thus not falsifiable on those grounds alone."

Some evolutionists seem to ignore that evolution sufferes from the same ability to just keep moving the goalposts.

You just need to keep going back in time an postulating that there were different evolutionary paths.


681 posted on 09/29/2005 1:34:39 PM PDT by untrained skeptic
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