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To: Southack
"Now, which theory best explains how the above pig came to have the gene for producing Human Growth Hormone:
#1. Evolution or
#2. Intelligent Design"

There you go again.
The pig does show that ID can produce changes to a genome. It does not show that all life is the result of ID. Showing that it is possible is not the same as showing that it is universally true.

43 posted on 03/25/2007 5:13:02 PM PDT by b_sharp (evolution is not, generally speaking, a global optimizer, but a general satisficer -J. Wilkins)
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To: b_sharp

["Showing that it is possible is not the same as showing that it is universally true."]

You hold a very high standard for things that disagree with your philosophy.

True, it's not the same as showing that it is universally true.

However, it does mean that you cannot disprove the theory of ID under laboratory conditions, doesn't it?

And yet, somehow I don't think you'll be swayed. Ever.


64 posted on 03/26/2007 3:11:57 AM PDT by jim35 ("...when the lion and the lamb lie down together, ...we'd better damn sure be the lion")
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To: b_sharp

The pig does show that ID can produce changes to a genome. It does not show that all life is the result of ID.

But all life is the result of a bunch of chemicals that miraculously yet naturally coalesced into self-replicating strands of pre-biotic material???

Wow. You guys really do "swallow a camel but strain out a gnat."

115 posted on 03/27/2007 2:02:56 PM PDT by Stingray ("Stand for the truth or you'll fall for anything.")
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