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To: Fester Chugabrew
To the extent it evaluates objective evidence, including organized matter that behaves according to predictable laws, it is scientific.

That's like saying 'to the extent that my cay plays Chopin Minuets'. ID has yet to perform the actions you cite.

Intelligent designers are not by definition omnipotent or able to do just anything. They may be bound by physical laws.

Yet no ID proponent has offered the slightest clue how the 'designer' would execute their design using known physical processes. They just wave their hands faster and faster.

Nope. It could easily be explained away as an anomaly, much as when an old spark plug is found embedded in rocks that date "millions" of years old.

Nonsense. If human remains were found in strata that had reliably dated to the Jurassic it would be major news.

982 posted on 01/06/2006 12:48:31 PM PST by blowfish
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To: blowfish
That's like saying 'to the extent that my cat plays Chopin Minuets'.

Not quite. Both your cat and Chopin Minuets are intelligently designed, but they are not designed to interface in such a way that the latter would normally be subject to the former. Now, your cat could probably listen to Chopin's Minuets, but not if neither the cat nor the Minuets were intelligently designed.

Yet no ID proponent has offered the slightest clue how the 'designer' would execute their design using known physical processes.

That's what science is uncovering all the time. Where have you been?

If human remains were found in strata that had reliably dated to the Jurassic it would be major news.

For a little while, perhaps. But then we'd just wave the evidence away as an anomaly. "It only happened once." "It's only anecdotal." "The human bones were planted there by those dastardly creationists."

987 posted on 01/06/2006 1:21:56 PM PST by Fester Chugabrew
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