GaryGaulin
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| Quote (N.Wells @ Dec. 27 2015,16:15) | | "Gain an understanding of include"????? - that loses me completely. |
The argument is over how I qualified "being used by serious experimenters". My operational definition clearly states "gain an understanding of" not "press a few buttons to see what happens".
| Quote (GaryGaulin @ Dec. 26 2015,21:04) | | Quote (Jim_Wynne @ Dec. 26 2015,09:29) | | but when you make claim that the "theory" is being "...used by serious experimenters" it's just plain dishonesty. |
I qualify "being used by serious experimenters" as a computer model or its theory of operation being seriously experimented with, by anyone who has the ability to do so. This can include teenage experimenters who spend some time experimenting with the on screen controls in order to gain an understanding of what happens when design parameters are changed.
Not being used by serious experimenters happens when all are stuck reading a book about a controversy that essentially argues ID theory for a model that can be seriously experimented with is possible, but none is included.
I don't know how you define "used by serious experimenters" but whatever it is it's scientifically useless academic snobbery that really only benefits the Discovery Institute and its affiliates. |
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The theory of intelligent design holds that certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection.
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