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To: js1138
Is it science to claim an answer where there is none, or none testable? Of course not,

Well, the anti-IDers say the bacterial flagellum evolved. What is the test for this?

Science will always assume that an answer can be found

If you can measure something or observe it under consistent conditions then we can say the event is natural. But if an event can't be measured, why is it good science to say one day we will be able to measure it?

Suppose the answer really is that God did it?

283 posted on 12/22/2005 12:42:49 PM PST by Tribune7
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To: Tribune7
Well, the anti-IDers say the bacterial flagellum evolved. What is the test for this?

The specific history of any feature may never be known. What ID claims is that the flagellum could not have evolved. More specifically, ID claims that component parts of the flagellum genome cannot have any function. This has already been disproved, and should offer some clue as to how this will turn out.

An actual scientist, faced with the problem of the flagellum, would attempt to break the problem down into component problems. Perhaps gene knockouts could demonstrate that simpler versions of the flagellum can work, or that component parts can have useful functions.

This is how science works. Science does not see a problem and throw up its hands.

290 posted on 12/22/2005 1:07:13 PM PST by js1138 (Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.)
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