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Re: Evolution
by EdF » Tue 30 Aug 2005, 18:35:38
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Z', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('EdF', '[')url=http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/083005N.shtml]Here[/url] are some good articles on the relationship of "intelligent design" to science.
I'm no ID advocate, but I wish to point that concerning the origin of life, science has no clue. Time and time again we're told that life spontanously arised 4.5 billion years ago as it was a fact or a scientific theory. It is not. It is a mere hypothesis, backed up by no observation and very little facts that may or may not be relevant to the problem. For all we know, life as we know iit may have been engineered. This hypothesis is quite falsifiable, since once you have proved that life arose all by itself, you would have falsified it.
My take is that the pov you're criticizing is basically agnostic, not a hypothesis that life arose spontaneously. It's not falsifiable at this point in time. But nor is a claim that spacemen seeded the planet. Better to just say "we don't know".
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Re: Evolution
by Z » Tue 30 Aug 2005, 18:51:50
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('KiddieKorral', 'A')biogenesis and evolution are two completely different things.
Yep. But I watched a documentary made by ID proponents, and the emphatis was more on the origin of life than evolution.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('EdF', 'M')y take is that the pov you're criticizing is basically agnostic, not a hypothesis that life arose spontaneously.
Sorry, I don't understand.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('EdF', 'B')etter to just say "we don't know".
I wish it was the case. I don't see this.
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