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To: jazzraptor
Identify the biological features important for the terraforming function. The ID hypothesis would be that these features are more important as role in future evolution than they are in whatever role they serve for the organism.

What features are these? What is terraforming? The ability to kill everyone with bombs or poison gas or biological organisms? Beavers change the landscape (and atmosphere) as much as most creatures.

If there are no such features, does this refute ID? If these features exist but are not important (and how is importance measured?), would this be a refutation? There doesn't seem to be much testable here.

166 posted on 02/19/2002 11:33:13 AM PST by Doctor Stochastic
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To: Doctor Stochastic
What features are these? What is terraforming? The ability to kill everyone with bombs or poison gas or biological organisms? Beavers change the landscape (and atmosphere) as much as most creatures.

If there are no such features, does this refute ID? If these features exist but are not important (and how is importance measured?), would this be a refutation? There doesn't seem to be much testable here.

You ask all of these questions, indicating that you know not of what you speak, and then you finish your post by concluding that there's "not much testable here".

This is indicative of a closemindedness. I'm therefore not sure you're worth the effort. A friend e-mailed me the Julie Thomas essay outlining the terraforming hypothesis. It's over 20 pages, without abstract. I would make the effort to summarize the document if I had any thought that I might not be wasting my time.

What say you?

170 posted on 02/19/2002 5:28:48 PM PST by jazzraptor
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