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To: freedumb2003
If a system is complex and works together for certain purposes, it is intelligent design. Science is theory based on factual observations and tests leading to reasonable conclusions. That's all ID is.

Through the study and analysis of a system's components, a design theorist is able to determine whether various natural structures are the product of chance, natural law, intelligent design, or some combination thereof. Such research is conducted by observing the types of information produced when intelligent agents act. Scientists then seek to find objects which have those same types of informational properties which we commonly know come from intelligence. Intelligent design has applied these scientific methods to detect design in irreducibly complex biological structures, the complex and specified information content in DNA... -- http://www.intelligentdesign.org/whatisid.php

19 posted on 07/31/2017 2:28:03 PM PDT by Jim W N
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To: Jim 0216

>>If a system is complex and works together for certain purposes, it is intelligent design. <<

No it isn’t The old and tired “irreducible complexity” argument just means “math is hard.”

I listed a specific set of real world scientific scenarios and asked how ID works in them.

You “um, er” strawman doesn’t answer those very specific questions.


20 posted on 07/31/2017 2:32:19 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (The UK has no death penalty, unless you are an 11 month old infant with no arrest history)
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