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To: ModernDayCato
A science teacher should explain what makes a Theory - that a theory can be tested, makes predictions, and is falsifiable. None of these apply to ID.

Evolution, on the other hand, conforms to all three. We see evolution within populations. Evolution makes predictions - evolution predicted that we'd find some of the fossils that have now been discovered, based on gaps within the fossil record. Finally, evolution is falsifiable - any number of discoveries such as a million-year old Homo Sapiens skeleton would do it.

How do we test ID? What predictions does it make for future discoveries? Most damningly, what possible find would prove ID to be incorrect?

Without meeting those three criteria, ID fails to qualify as a scientific theory and should not be taught in science classes. Words mean things, after all.

376 posted on 11/09/2005 7:05:53 AM PST by highball ("I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." -- Thomas Jefferson)
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To: highball
If I may repeat:

Red herring. Already covered. Please see Post #365.

Two observations, then I'm going to get myself some breakfast:

This is why I very seldom post on FR anymore. And though it may have a lot to do with the subject (you really DON'T have anything but semantics and personal attacks since your 'theory' is a bust), debate on this forum is boring because the other side never bothers to READ what you post.

Your arguments get more and more amusing. You are ramming down our throats a 'theory' that is arguably provable to be false (or at least shaky on its foundations), and refusing to even acknowledge a theory that is perfectly plausible.

Sorry guys, I'm bored, and I'm tired of hearing the same crap over and over again. Enjoy your debate. I think in the end my side is going to win, and you and the ACLU and the Separation of Church and State people are going to get smacked around.

378 posted on 11/09/2005 7:12:59 AM PST by ModernDayCato
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