Richardthughes
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DaveTard tries Popper take 15:
http://www.uncommondescent.com/intelli....-135801
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DaveScot
09/05/2007
9:12 am
jordan
?God? (defined as an infinite being where all things are possible) and an infinite multiverse (defined as an infinite space where all things are mandatory) are both non-scientific. Remember the old saw ?A theory that explains everything explains nothing?.
Intelligent agency capable of building complex machines is already instantiated in this universe at least once. One additional intelligent agency in the observable universe is clearly more parsimonius.
The ID hypothesis stated as follows is perfectly scientific according to Popper?s famous example with swans (all swans are white).
All complex machines are intelligently designed.
Just as the observation of one black swan will falsify Popper?s example - one observation of a complex machine designed without intelligent agency will falsify the ID hypothesis.
Behe?s recent book ?Edge of Evolution? is very important as it describes an observation (p. falciparum replicating trillions of times) where the ID hypothesis could have been falsified but instead was a confirmed prediction of ID (no complex machines without intelligent agency). It?s hard to imagine a better test of random mutation?s real-world ability than analyzing genetic change in a eukaryote at the nucleotide level over orders of magnitude more replications than all mammals that ever lived.
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NO SCIENCE SO FAR.
But supposing I list these as machines:
a snowflake
Mountains
Oklo nuclear reactors
A tornado
Forest fires
Lunar tides
Whoopsey, DT.
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