RE: Intelligent Design: Did you design yourself?
May 28, 2014 at 7:39 pm
(This post was last modified: May 28, 2014 at 7:39 pm by Bad Wolf.)
(May 28, 2014 at 6:36 pm)Artur Axmann Wrote: Is intelligent design a scientific theory?Yes.
No, it barely qualifies as a hypothesis.
(May 28, 2014 at 6:36 pm)Artur Axmann Wrote: The scientific method is commonly described as a four-step process involving observations, hypothesis, experiments, and conclusion. Intelligent design begins with the observation that intelligent agents produce complex and specified information (CSI).Care to define this CSI?
(May 28, 2014 at 6:36 pm)Artur Axmann Wrote: Design theorists hypothesize that if a natural object was designed, it will contain high levels of CSI.
I'm going to assume you mean 'complexity' when you say CSI. And no, they don't hypothesize that, they assume it and completely ignore all the natural examples of complexity.
(May 28, 2014 at 6:36 pm)Artur Axmann Wrote: Scientists then perform experimental tests upon natural objects to determine if they contain complex and specified information.What does that even mean? You still haven't defined what CSI is and yet you're telling us they test for it.
(May 28, 2014 at 6:36 pm)Artur Axmann Wrote: One easily testable form of CSI is irreducible complexity,Oh, I was right, this thread is going to be fun.
(May 28, 2014 at 6:36 pm)Artur Axmann Wrote: which can be discovered by experimentally reverse-engineering biological structures to see if they require all of their parts to function.That is so ridiculous, I cant even.....
They and you, don't understand evolution.
(May 28, 2014 at 6:36 pm)Artur Axmann Wrote: When ID researchers find irreducible complexity in biology, they conclude that such structures were designed.
All irreducible complexity means is: 'I don't understand how that came to be so complex'
That does not give you the right to call it god, the correct answer is 'I don't know'
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“Young earth creationism is essentially the position that all of modern science, 90% of living scientists and 98% of living biologists, all major university biology departments, every major science journal, the American Academy of Sciences, and every major science organization in the world, are all wrong regarding the origins and development of life….but one particular tribe of uneducated, bronze aged, goat herders got it exactly right.” - Chuck Easttom
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