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To: Dimensio
My request is consistent with the requirements of the scientific method; in that respect, it is certainly not "odd".

Which raises a question... What exactly is your scientific background or credentials? Since you seem to be such an expert, always correcting people and challenging them to provide evidence, you must have some of some kind in order to evaluate correctly whether or not their evidence is valid or not.

665 posted on 06/19/2006 7:15:29 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom
What exactly is your scientific background or credentials?

I defer to information written by professionals of natural sciences for scientific information, including the standards of the scientific method.

Since you seem to be such an expert, always correcting people and challenging them to provide evidence, you must have some of some kind in order to evaluate correctly whether or not their evidence is valid or not.

Because I am not an advanced student of any natural science, my evaluation of evidence is limited to verifying that claims of evidence are logically consistent and that claims of scientific explanations satisfy the standards of the scientific method. For example, you have claimed that "intelligent design" is a scientific explanation. If this is true, then you should be able to define a hypothetical falsification criteria for the explanation. Thus far, I have not observed that you have done so. I have also observed that you claim that the existence of some events of order from non-order involve intelligent intervention, that all events of order from non-order involve intelligent intervention. Not only is this the logical fallacy of hasty generalization, but you have also acknowledged that it is not possible to know if any process of order from non-order involves no intelligent intervention, even if no intelligence can be discerned. As a result, the sample from which you have drawn your conclusions is biased, and not valid.
669 posted on 06/19/2006 7:31:03 AM PDT by Dimensio (http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif <-- required reading before you use your next apostrophe!)
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