Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: antiRepublicrat; Fester Chugabrew
FC: That organized matter operating under predictable laws will be found.

aR: Find some and get back to us. Come up with a specifically-stated hypothesis, set up a reproducible test, have it be successful and submit it to a peer-reviewed journal. If it survives, you have a decent hypothesis. Then you can work on building a general theory to explain it.

Nobody will take you seriously until that's done, because that's how the science game is played. But then you've already come up with the vague, ill-defined "theory," so you'll have to backpedal a bit to overcome that initial loss of credibility.

I think you're being unfair to Fester and his rather elegant theory, "Stuff exists."

And, as I look around ... I see STUFF! Intelligently designed stuff, at that! Hey! Fester may be onto something! "Stuff exists" explains so much. It explains everything, in fact ... uh-oh ...

633 posted on 12/13/2005 11:18:08 AM PST by Gumlegs
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 512 | View Replies ]


To: Gumlegs

To say that matter is organized and acts according to predictable laws is to say more than "stuff exists." The ubiquity of intelligent design is such that, like the air you breathe, it goes unnoticed. It is considered natural only because you were born into it and have become accustomed to it.

At any rate, Intelligent Design is well-qualified to be called a "theory," because it explains the data, which, if it were without design, would be incomprehensible to reason and senses.


640 posted on 12/13/2005 11:26:12 AM PST by Fester Chugabrew
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 633 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson