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To: Fester Chugabrew
The same way you test your own inferences that an intelligible universe may be a product of non-intelligent non-design.

I have made no such inferences, and as such I have no such tests.

Do you not realize that all science begins with untestable assumptions?

The starting axiom of science is that the fundamental properties of the universe do not change. All else is derived from observation and is testable. Are you admitting that your claims are untestable? If so, then they are not scientific, and it is not honest for you to claim that they are.
141 posted on 05/09/2006 8:42:51 PM PDT by Dimensio (http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif <-- required reading before you use your next apostrophe!)
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To: Dimensio
I have made no such inferences . . .

Yes you have, by default. As such your objections to ID are not scientific.

The starting axiom of science is that the fundamental properties of the universe do not change.

I reckon that shoots any notion of evolution square in the buns. Is this axiom subject to empirical proof? What makes it more scientific than the dearly beloved FSM?

Are you admitting that your claims are untestable?

No, I am not. I maintain that the presence of organized matter performing specific functions may reasonably be inferred as a product of intelligent design. My claims extend to organized matter, and to that extent they are testable. Further inferences and assumptions, like all inferences and assumptions, are not subject to empirical proof. That does not make them "unscientific."

157 posted on 05/10/2006 4:42:52 AM PDT by Fester Chugabrew
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