(February 19, 2016 at 10:35 pm)Stimbo Wrote:(February 19, 2016 at 8:39 pm)AAA Wrote: And intelligent design is not unscientific.
Then perhaps you could propose a method to test for and identify the designer.
Not in the lab like you want. But we can compare the two competing hypothesis by making predictions beforehand based on what would be expected between the two worldviews. Here are a few that have already happened.
Materialists predicted the cell to be exceedingly simple. It was not
They predicted most of the DNA to have no function. It did.
They predicted the cytoplasm to essentially be unorganized and random. It wasn't.
They predicted the universe to be eternal. It isn't.
They predicted the appendix go be functionless. It isn't.
Now I'm not going to say that people who believed in a designer predicted all the correct outcomes, but the fact is that all of these are not surprising in the designer world view. They were however surprising in the materialist worldview. If you want me to make predictions now, I will say that most of the observed variation that has been claimed to be the result of changing in the DNA sequence will actually be shown to be the result of changed gene expression. Also I think that introns will be shown to have function. I also expect the field of developmental neurobiology to reveal an intricate mechanism for leading to the proper orientation of the 100 Billion or so neurons found in the adult brain. It will be very difficult to explain through mutation and natural selection.
