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To: r9etb; js1138
I'm saying that it's no longer rational to simply rule out the ID hypothesis as a priori impossible.

And no one here claims that the ID hypothesis is impossible.
That an unknown entity with unspecified abilities and limitations and for inscrutable purposes might have done whatever you just happen to observe is trivially true but this also makes it scientifically useless.

456 posted on 01/17/2006 9:03:59 AM PST by BMCDA (cdesign proponentsists - the missing link)
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To: BMCDA
That an unknown entity with unspecified abilities and limitations and for inscrutable purposes might have done whatever you just happen to observe is trivially true but this also makes it scientifically useless.

You've made a lot of assumptions about the need to identify and understand a designer before identifying something as "designed." This is convenient for your argument, but not logically necessary.

458 posted on 01/17/2006 9:12:17 AM PST by r9etb
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