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To: DC Bound
In general, any assertion made by the ID side can be falsified by showing a natural explanation.

It doesn't wash. All the ID'rs have to say is "God did it".

57 posted on 09/28/2005 7:10:14 PM PDT by WildTurkey (When will CBS Retract and Apologize?)
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To: WildTurkey
[In general, any assertion made by the ID side can be falsified by showing a natural explanation.]

It doesn't wash. All the ID'rs have to say is "God did it".

At that point Occam's Razor would be staring them in the face.

60 posted on 09/28/2005 7:15:03 PM PDT by inquest (FTAA delenda est)
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To: WildTurkey

But they don't just say "God did it." They seek examples of situations in the real world than cannot be explained by natural laws or chance or a combination of them. If you saw a chess board that had all the pawns occupying the left field of the board, one in front of the other, you would conclude that neither the laws of chess nor chance could have put them there. ID seeks the same examples in the real world--situations like the fine tuning of the universe--which is so improbable as to be impossible given the rules of chance and physics. They never resort to "God did it." They seek to prove intelligence did it. And that's why it is falsifiable--just show how nonintelligence did it, and ID is falsified.


78 posted on 09/28/2005 8:08:37 PM PDT by DC Bound (American greatness is the result of great individuals seeking to be anything but equal.)
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