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To: steve-b
"intelligent design" fails the key criterion of falsifiability.

Does it?

Start at paragraph 8.

21 posted on 03/24/2002 9:12:48 PM PST by Bonaparte
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To: Bonaparte
Does it? Start at paragraph 8.

ID can't be falsified. It is based purely on an article of the religious beliefs of the proponents (the Christian God created the universe). You can't falsify faith.

When the listed criteria are met, ID will simply slide back further a notch (remember the progression: creationism turned into ID when it was too obvious to the layperson that creationism wasn't science). In the end, ID will be redefined to be something I have to admit is possible, but completely untestable and outside the bounds of science: God set up the evolutional system we see today, and all we're doing is discovering it.

Evolution however is completely falsifiable. Find an obviously advanced fossil in old strata for example.

40 posted on 03/25/2002 12:04:55 AM PST by Quila
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