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To: tacticalogic
"All you have to do is find one that doesn't and he's proven wrong. There are plenty of examples to be found."

Yeah, IDer's who aren't considered to be scientists.

"ID is rejected because it's inconsistent with methodological naturalism and the scientific method."

So is an 'a priori' commitment to philosophical naturalism but that doesn't seem to stop 'science'.

"In order for science to operate the way you think it should it will have to abandon methodological naturalism and the scinetific method, and accept supernatural explanations as valid scientific theory - in all disciplines. The arguments that hurricae Katrina was caused by God's punishment of New Orleans because there were too many fags and fornicators will be elevated to valid scientific theory."

No, that's the fallacy of appeal to consequences of a belief.

130 posted on 09/30/2008 4:26:28 PM PDT by GourmetDan (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.)
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To: GourmetDan
Yeah, IDer's who aren't considered to be scientists.

Chemists, applied physicists, materials research, metallurgy, ceramics, botanists, pharmacology, there's all kinds of other fields of science - and you submit that Lewontin speaks for them all. Not likely.

No, that's the fallacy of appeal to consequences of a belief.

Yes, let's pretend your beliefs don't have any consequences.

131 posted on 09/30/2008 4:37:36 PM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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