Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Evolution News & Views: A Response to Questions from a Biology Teacher: How Do We Test Intelligent Design?

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Here is a great answer about why Intelligent Design (ID) is really science. ID is testable and ID is falsifiable. It is a great answer posted by Casey Luskin.

Evolution News & Views: A Response to Questions from a Biology Teacher: How Do We Test Intelligent Design?
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5 comments:

  1. BruckerMarch 30, 2010 at 3:53 PM

    How is ID falsifiable? I have a hard time seeing either ID or evolution as being truly falsifiable.

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  2. mmcelhaneyMarch 30, 2010 at 7:55 PM

    Brucker, did you see this post? Evolution News & Views: A Response to Questions from a Biology Teacher: How Do We Test Intelligent Design?

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  3. BruckerMarch 30, 2010 at 8:57 PM

    Yeah, but I'm not sure I found it completely convincing. In particular, I wonder if those four predictions were made before of after the related discoveries? Furthermore, (and I'll have to look for the article) the "bacterial flagellum" example has been disproven, as it happens.

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  4. BruckerMarch 30, 2010 at 9:07 PM

    I thought I'd found it, but this might be a better article:
    http://goosetheantithesis.blogspot.com/2005/11/irreducible-complexity-impossible.html

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  5. BruckerMarch 30, 2010 at 9:11 PM

    Oops let me make that an active link:
    http://goosetheantithesis.blogspot.com/2005/11/irreducible-complexity-impossible.html

    and while I don't know where the article was that I saw on the flagellum, check out:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irreducible_complexity#Flagella

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