Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: Fester Chugabrew
"True. It would only lessen the likelihood of intelligent design as an accurate, objective way of viewing the universe."

Intelligent design is not a way of looking at the universe. It is a claim. Science is a way of looking at the universe.

Finding unorganized matter would in no lessen the likelyhood of ID, because the designer can do anything and everything.

"Finding a dinosaur in a Brazilian rain forest would not rule out evolution either, but would only lessen the likelihood of certain features of the theory."

Actually, it would only have a very minor affect on it, if any. Finding a human in the Jurassic would be devastating evidence against evolution.
979 posted on 01/06/2006 12:27:02 PM PST by CarolinaGuitarman ("There is grandeur in this view of life...")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 978 | View Replies ]


To: CarolinaGuitarman
Intelligent design is not a way of looking at the universe. It is a claim.

It is both. It is reasonable. To the extent it evaluates objective evidence, including organized matter that behaves according to predictable laws, it is scientific.

Finding unorganized matter would in no way lessen the likelihood of ID, because the designer can do anything and everything.

The designer is not defined or made evident by possibilities and potentials but by what is actually designed, built, and set into motion. The presence of unorganized matter that does not behave according to predictable laws would be uncharacteristic of an intelligent designer, and thus serve to undermine its presence or activity. Intelligent designers are not by definition omnipotent or able to do just anything. They may be bound by physical laws.

Finding a human in the Jurassic would be devastating evidence against evolution.

Nope. It could easily be explained away as an anomaly, much as when an old spark plug is found embedded in rocks that date "millions" of years old.

980 posted on 01/06/2006 12:40:46 PM PST by Fester Chugabrew
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 979 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson