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To: r9etb
Once again, the hypothesis of Intelligent design is not that somethings are intelligently designed and some are not and that we can distinguish between them. The I.D. hypothesis is that life itself is incapable of any large scale change without the intervention of an intelligent designer.
61 posted on 07/08/2008 2:33:53 PM PDT by allmendream
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To: allmendream
The I.D. hypothesis is that life itself is incapable of any large scale change without the intervention of an intelligent designer.

Another strawman. There is absolutely no requirement for such a constraint.

To demonstrate the validity of the biological ID hypothesis, it is enough to point out that specific examples of intelligent design -- in the form of large scale biological changes --can and do take place, on a daily and industrial-scale basis.

Validation of a hypothesis is not verification, of course (you do understand the difference, I presume). One cannot simply brush off the scientific necessity of producing evidence through testing.

Nevertheless, your suggestion that the post-production detection of such biological efforts is scientifically impossible, and therefore not worth doing, is rather difficult to take seriously.

62 posted on 07/08/2008 2:44:35 PM PDT by r9etb
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