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To: goldstategop
Karl Popper said the key to science is being able to determine if theoretical assumptions are wrong so you can see if they are correct.

Yet the theories behind evolution may be testable. The basic premise of ID - God did it - is not.

22 posted on 07/17/2007 4:44:25 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur (Save Fredericksburg. Support CVBT.)
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To: Non-Sequitur
Orthodox Darwinism has been discredited. The idea life arose through random chance and slow gradual modifications is belied by the fossil record and by the fact no one has seen species change or new ones, emerge with a few human lifetimes. Scientists have not been able to produce empirical evidence macro-evolution exists. Now, its true, you can't empirically demonstrate the existence of God either. The difference between those who champion evolution and those who believe in God is the former refuse to acknowledge they have to believe in atheist interpretation of reality because their theory compels them to while those who believe in God are honest enough to admit all they have is faith. As I said, neither theory excludes the other but Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett have said there is no scientific basis for religious belief. One could inform these gentlemen with equal authority there is no scientific basis either for evolution - at least the Orthodox Darwinian account of it.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

40 posted on 07/17/2007 7:20:39 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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