(February 20, 2016 at 12:35 pm)AAA Wrote:(February 20, 2016 at 8:14 am)Stimbo Wrote: By testing for, and examining, such evidence as would be expected from whatever phenomenon is under investigation. You are seriously misunderstanding what observation means in a scientific context. It doesn't mean you have to be able to see the cause with your own eyes or else it isn't true.
Thank you for saying that. We look at what would be expected if either hypothesis were true. Now go look back at my other response to you, and tell me which one has better predictive power.
Well, clearly not Intelligent Design, because it tells you nothing about how to distinguish between designed organisms non-designed ones, nor anything about the designer or how it did the designing.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
