(December 17, 2010 at 9:23 am)rjh4 Wrote: ...... (common descent) has made in the fields of medical research and agricultural research that could not also have been predicted just as well by supernatural creation by a God who initially created various "kinds" and who built into the DNA of those "kinds" the potential for the evolution (change) of those original "kinds".
Any naturalistic explanation for any discovery can be coopted by presupposing tailored interference by any of an infinite different entity or entities that could be dreamt up with the power to make everything just so. So the fact that one particular such entity (god) can be unfalsifiably claimed do this is no credit to the theory that this entity existed. However, while any theory tailored interference can tailor itself to fit any evidence ex post, I am at a loss to think of any theory of tailored interference having demonstratably uniquely anticipated any discovery without surreptitiously resorting to methodological naturalism to make the prediction.
So I challenge you to respond to the assertion that no theory of god is better than any other theory of god, and no theory of god has produced much without surreptitiously resorting to methodological naturalism, and methodological naturalism has no need for any theory of god.
