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To: r9etb
Your other comments simply confirm my point. You're raising "scientific" objections to the possibility of finding specific, observable signs of genetic engineering.

Everyone in the ID movement is welcome to look for evidence of genetic engineering. It's not even expensive since genome data is online.

When humans engineer organisms -- and I presume you would include this as an example of intelligent design -- they tend to insert genes from one species to another, even crossing the lines at the level of kingdom.

This results in organisms that do not fit in a nested hierarchy. So ID supporters might spend their time looking for breaks in the nested hierarchy. ERVs would be a logical starting place.

106 posted on 07/09/2008 7:21:31 AM PDT by js1138
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To: js1138
Everyone in the ID movement...

Silly statement. Why must ID be a movement? Is "evolutionary theory" a "movement," too?

That said, I thank you for summarizing so neatly the testing approach that I had tried to state before.

Clearly, then, you would have to agree that the "ID hypothesis is not testable" canard is no longer valid, at least not as a general statement.

The techniques of genetic engineering (which is a form of "intelligent design," just as you said) are such that the signs of similar activities by "unknown agents" might be recognizable.

110 posted on 07/09/2008 7:34:43 AM PDT by r9etb
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