[trisham]

What do these theories state? What do each purport to explain, what evidence leads to these explanations, what tests can be done on these "theories" and what hypothetical observations would falsify each of these "theories"?

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I do believe I've seen you on many a previous thread, so I must conclude you are being disingenuous.

Would you like to make a point?

[Junior]

He's basically saying ID is not a theory. It isn't even a testable hypothesis. You can't call it a "competing theory" when it can't even find its way to the same arena.

[Dimensio]

My point is that thus far no one has been able to answer those questions in a logically consistent fashion. I have seen some "falsification" criteria, but they don't seem to be based upon the theory itself; that is, the person asserts that events are impossible, but never explains why the events are logically impossible of the theory is true. Specifically, I have been told that observing non-living collections of organic compounds becoming life would falsify creationism, but absolutely no explanation was given as to why creationism being true would logically mean that organic compounds cannot form into life.

Without so much as a justifiable falsification criteria, then neither ID nor Creationism are actually "theories".