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Intelligent Design Is Only Theorized
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It isn't. It is much less than that. It is merely an ad hoc explanation. Not worth anything in the world of science. That is why they lost in Dover.
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A scientific theory is an explanation of a group of facts or phenomena in the natural world which has been repeatedly confirmed through experiment or observation. So, no.
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As I understand it, intelligent design is a philosophical proposition not a scientific theory. As such it is supported by logical and theological reasoning, not empirical evidence.
Whilst intelligent design is not widely accepted there are some supporting arguments for it so I would not say it is "only" theorised.
As I understand it, intelligent design is a philosophical proposition not a scientific theory. As such it is supported by logical and theological reasoning, not empirical evidence.
Whilst intelligent design is not widely accepted there are some supporting arguments for it so I would not say it is "only" theorised.
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Intelligent design, or evolution, has more to do with the way we have organized our thinking than anything else.
"If I hadn't believed it I wouldn't have seen it with my own eyes".
"If I hadn't believed it I wouldn't have seen it with my own eyes".
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A nihilist who cares.
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Science isn't in the business of proving anything. Science deals with evidence. A theory in science is an explanation of facts. It is the highest any idea in science can hope to achieve. Intelligent Design makes no predictions about the natural world. It starts at a conclusion and works backwards. It is not science and that is why it loses every single time in court.
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Science is about describing and explaining the real world; its results can be, and have been, used to prevent a lot of suffering and to save and improve a lot of lives. If you consider that 'ultimately useless', I'd suggest the problem is with you, not with science.
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True it is only a theory. It's an inference to the best explanation, which isn't 100%, but it makes more sense than natural selection acting on random variations explaining the diversity of life.
It doesn't seek to prove God either, there can't be any scientific proof of something immeasurable, infinite, and immaterial. It only seeks to distinguish between intelligent and non-intelligent causes. Intelligence, or gravity for that matter, isn't something that can be put in a test tube, we can only study it's effects.
Now, the implications of the theory on the other hand ....
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It is not a theory. It doesn't meet the scientific criteria for being a theory (see post #3). At best it is an hypothesis.
Makes more sense to who?
Are largely based on wishful thinking. Its originators harbored the dream of using it as a Trojan Horse for biblical creationism so they could impose it on the unwilling.
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Sure.
God saw to that.
Job 38:35 Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, and say unto thee, Here we are?
Notice how He is taking credit for electronic communications?
Be it Morse code, walki-talki, radio, or Internet, God imbued nature with the ability to send data by electricity; then He gifted us scientists to discover it and put it to use.
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