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To: shrinkermd
At Illinois's Wheaton College, a course for nonscience majors called "Origins" includes a discussion of intelligent design. Derrick A. Chignell, a chemistry professor, says that he and other science professors there tend to be more skeptical of the theory than are its advocates, but believe it raises important scientific and religious questions. "I've read the books, and I've been to the conferences, and I think it's intriguing," he says. "What I want to see is some science being done based on that paradigm that produces results that could not be produced by the Darwinian paradigm."

Mr. Miller also wonders why Mr. Behe, a member of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, has never presented his ideas at its annual conference, which is his right. "If I thought I had an idea that would completely revolutionize cell biology in the same way that Professor Behe thinks he has an idea that would revolutionize biochemistry," he says, "I would be talking about that idea at every single meeting of my peers I could possibly get to."

Mr. Behe responds that he prefers other venues. "I just don't think that large scientific meetings are effective forums for presenting these ideas," he says.

Ding Ding Ding! If ID is going to make it as a scientific theory, then it better damn well start acting like one. The avoidance of a scientific setting for debate of ID makes the proponents of the theory look like charlatans. According to the scientific method, a workable theory has to have some testable hypothesis that can be worked over via an experiment. Does ID have any testable hypothesis? To be BETTER than evolution, it has to have a workable tested theory that explains something better than evolution? Does it do that?

23 posted on 12/18/2001 7:36:22 AM PST by ThinkPlease
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To: ThinkPlease
Does ID have any testable hypothesis?

DOES EVOLUTION? BESIDES moths changing color and bird beaks growing larger? BESIDES microevolution??? The answer is NO.

I guess the truth of the matter in this instance is only TIME will tell....

28 posted on 12/18/2001 7:43:54 AM PST by dubyagee
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To: ThinkPlease
You have Freep mail! :)
29 posted on 12/18/2001 7:44:05 AM PST by RadioAstronomer
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