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To: Getready
If "intelligent design" theory fits in with all the facts, would that make it a legitimate theory?

Intelligent Design does fit with all the facts. But that's it's problem, it fits with anything. Whatever we find in the universe you can answer that the "intelligence" made it that way.

If lightning strikes you dead, God did it. If we find fossils in the ground, God put them there. If we found them this way, or that way, with this radiocarbon dating or that, then God did it that way, and we don't know any more than we started out with.

Intelligent Design is the anti-science. It implies that we can't discover anything, because the Intelligence can fool us, or change the facts at His whim. We can never be sure of anything under such a philosophy.

30 posted on 10/06/2005 12:15:22 PM PDT by narby
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To: narby
"Intelligent Design does fit with all the facts. But that's it's problem, it fits with anything."

That's what's so great about it; it gave birth to Flying Spaghetti Monsterism. :-)
51 posted on 10/06/2005 2:34:47 PM PDT by NJ_gent (Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.)
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