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To: CarolinaGuitarman
I didn't say science can answer everything. Please reread what I said.
"They can never admit, for example, that any cause of evolutionary change is unknown or unknowable. "
Why admit to something that is false?


That is exactly what you are saying. If science cannot answer something it is because it is not knowable for some reason. If course, science can speculate endlessly but I don't consider that type of "science" to be worthy of the credibility we rightfully give to the hard sciences.
61 posted on 10/06/2005 9:57:53 AM PDT by Ford4000
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To: Ford4000
"That is exactly what you are saying"

No it wasn't, reread it again. I never said science can answer everything. It CAN however answer a great many things, like whether common descent is correct and what processes evolution most likely used. It cannot *prove* these things, but then again no science can prove it's claims.

"If science cannot answer something it is because it is not knowable for some reason."

No, it means we don't know the answer yet. ID says that we will never know the answers, but provides no evidence to back this up. I don't know what the limits of human knowledge are, and nobody else does. We certainly haven't approached those limits yet though. ID would have us throw up our hands and say *We will never know*. It's defeatism at it's worst, giving up without trying.

"If course, science can speculate endlessly but I don't consider that type of "science" to be worthy of the credibility we rightfully give to the hard sciences."

Which is why ID is not science and has no place in a science classroom.
63 posted on 10/06/2005 10:13:23 AM PDT by CarolinaGuitarman ("There is a grandeur in this view of life...")
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