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To: Frumious Bandersnatch
Ah, I was wondering when someone was going to throw in the 'falsifiability' strawman once again.

If a theory cannot be falsified, it is not a scientific theory. QED. How many times do you want that statement explained to you?

I've noticed that quite often when evolutionary religionists cannot verify their claims they throw the burden of proof on IDers.

Not what happened. I asked for a falsification criteria. See above. Without such a criteria, it is not a scientific theory - it's just blather (same as the giant chicken argument).

Fine, therefore I'll make a verifiable claim - and a challenge. It goes thusly: All experimentation has, at its source, a recognizable and absolutely essential design element.

This is an assertion without foundation and as such it can be gratuitously discarded. In addition, as I have previously pointed out, not all experiments are designed.

If you don't understand the first bit of that, it means, that your statement is not a prediction of your theory, that it contains no means of verification, that there is no falsifiable criteria attributable to ID/IOT, that is has no relationship to your argument or ID/IOT, that it is a meaningless statement.

Show me even *one* evolutionary experiment which has no design basis.

I already did.

So answer my question, how is your assertion different than the giant chicken argument?

176 posted on 10/10/2002 1:10:15 PM PDT by balrog666
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To: balrog666
Sorry, but even though you claim otherwise, you have yet to name even *one* experiment that was not designed.

Your back-handed reference to self-replicating protein chains was still an experiment based on design (someone had to design it) with certain assumptions made in setting up.

Try again.
197 posted on 10/11/2002 9:18:29 AM PDT by Frumious Bandersnatch
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