(May 26, 2016 at 11:18 pm)robvalue Wrote: For all the blathering and pseudoscience that ID proponents have come up with, I've never seen a single falsifiable hypothesis.
I'll go further: I've never seen an ID proponent furnish a hypothesis at all. The entire pseudo-field is filled top-to-bottom with nothing but negative arguments, chock full of attempts to disprove evolution with no actual means of testing for design beyond assuming it based on nebulous criteria that ID proponents merely assert to be indicators of design even if they show up in naturally occurring bodies, as though the mere fact that those criteria are shared between verifiably designed things and potentially natural things means that there's only one category for them, and therefore design. It's just a bunch of fallacious arguments from analogy, routing back to an overarching argument from ignorance.
And there's a reason for that. Design proponents are merely out to strike down evolution, not propose an alternative. The only reason they even have the artifice of an opposing "theory" now is because cultural expectations for these things tends toward requiring rational justification rather than mere assertion, and we know this to be true, because, ironically, we've seen the evolution of the ID movement from the creationism movement. We even have the transitional form between the two ideas! But since the ID guys are only out for the appearance of scientific rigor they don't even care, which is apparent in how unwilling they are to acknowledge the origins even when it's verifiable enough to be undeniable now.
ID is meant to sneak religion into science, they can't give the game away no matter how anemic their ideas end up being.
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