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To: elfman2
ID in Philosophy where unsupported assertions belong.

ID doesn't even qualify as philosophy. It's just a bunch of conjectures based on logical fallacies.

And don't disparage the discipline of philosophy. You couldn't have science without it.

88 posted on 03/22/2006 9:03:25 PM PST by curiosity
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To: curiosity
"ID doesn't even qualify as philosophy. It's just a bunch of conjectures based on logical fallacies. And don't disparage the discipline of philosophy. You couldn't have science without it. "

I haven’t though this through, but God has been the subject of debated throughout the progression of philosophy, and divine intervention is historically and logically consistent with that. And since God is not disproved, ID is not a “logical fallacy”. God and ID may or may not be unimpressive as a philosophy, but their relevance is well grounded.

103 posted on 03/22/2006 9:53:07 PM PST by elfman2
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To: curiosity; elfman2
ID in Philosophy where unsupported assertions belong.

I think it belongs in rhetoric class, to be subjected to the same analysis as politicians' speeches, advertisements, and so forth.

It's a good example of a pseudoscience for classes that touch on the philosophy of science; in England it's being taught, as it should, as part of the history of science.

122 posted on 03/22/2006 11:37:35 PM PST by Virginia-American
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