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To: Gumlegs
I think that I do.  Basically you predict the behavior of a theory if one or more of the basic tenets or parameters to that theory are also changed.  I don't know if you are understanding what I'm trying to say.  I'm not necessarily claiming ID to be a theory so much as a theorem.  As a theorem it works much more nicely that random chance.
857 posted on 04/02/2002 9:49:43 AM PST by Frumious Bandersnatch
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To: Frumious Bandersnatch
SYLLABICATION: the·o·rem

NOUN: 1. An idea that has been demonstrated as true or is assumed to be so demonstrable.

2. Mathematics A proposition that has been or is to be proved on the basis of explicit assumptions.

ETYMOLOGY: Late Latin therma, from Greek, from therein, to look at, from theros, spectator.

FB: "I'm not necessarily claiming ID to be a theory so much as a theorem. As a theorem it works much more nicely that random chance."

I'm still lost. According to the American Heritage Dictionary On-Line (Edition of 2000), if it's a theorem, you're assuming it to be true.

863 posted on 04/02/2002 1:11:59 PM PST by Gumlegs
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