N.Wells
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| Quote (GaryGaulin @ Oct. 16 2015,18:39) | Test = "The theory of intelligent design holds that"
Hypothesis = "certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause,"
NotHypothesis = "not an undirected process such as natural selection."
Test + Hypothesis + NotHypothesis = TheoryPremise = "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." |
OK, that doesn't make much sense.
"The theory of intelligent design holds that" is the beginning of a description or summary of the supposed theory of intelligent design.
If "certain features ..... by an intelligent cause" is an hypothesis then the whole thing is not a theory. "The theory holds that" implies that what follows is the theory.
However, "certain features" is so imprecise as to be useless and uninteresting. Of course some things in the universe are designed. No one doubts that, but that's not an explanation of anything specific, nor does it have any implications at all, so the whole mess is utterly pointless.
"NotHypothesis" has no meaning, so you are babbling again. Possibly what you meant is "null hypothesis", except that a null hypothesis is indeed very much an hypothesis, so either way you are being stupid.
However, the way you are using the phrase, you are merely making an unsupported assertion that you never get around to backing up. Worse, natural selection has been documented to be important in evolutionary change, so you are just asserting rubbish.
Lastly a test plus an hypothesis (with or without whatever a NotHypothesis is) does not equal a premise. Never has, never will.
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