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To: mlo
"Because your test doesn't prove ID wrong. It would only demonstrate that an alternative method was at work, but there is not requirement that if ID is true no other process could be as well. They aren't exclusionary. Later evolution could have been "designed" in.

Your statement is self-contradictory and silly. If it can be proven that a set of characteristics which work together gradually evolved then ID is refuted, period. Evolution cannot "design" anything, it is a mindless force, it has no intelligence, no memory, no brain. Whatever it does, however it does it, cannot be called design.

130 posted on 03/27/2002 4:37:19 AM PST by gore3000
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To: gore3000
"Because your test doesn't prove ID wrong. It would only demonstrate that an alternative method was at work, but there is not requirement that if ID is true no other process could be as well. They aren't exclusionary. Later evolution could have been "designed" in.

Your statement is self-contradictory and silly. If it can be proven that a set of characteristics which work together gradually evolved then ID is refuted, period. Evolution cannot "design" anything, it is a mindless force, it has no intelligence, no memory, no brain. Whatever it does, however it does it, cannot be called design.

No, it's called "logic". Who said anything about evolution having intelligence? Read what I said. Unless ID and Evolution are exclusionary, meaning if one is true the other cannot be, then proof of one does not disprove the other. They are not exclusionary. So your suggested falsification is not a falsification.

170 posted on 03/27/2002 9:09:59 AM PST by mlo
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