(May 22, 2018 at 1:57 pm)Khemikal Wrote:(May 22, 2018 at 1:51 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: Are those unique predictions even if they had not been falsified?
A theory of evolution that postulate speciation to be rapid, but species then remain stable for a long time, would also predict intermediate forms would be rare and hard to find. Different organisms having largely similar genetic code follows naturally from evolution of all flavors. Irreducible complexity can not prove irreducibility and depends on lack of sufficient imagination to conceive of plausible reduction.
There must be some prize for coming up with a “theory” that is not even wrong, and yet can still be proven wrong so trivially and repeatedly.
ID didnt contend that they would be rare or hard to find. It contended that they would be non-existent. Turns out they were wrong. Honestly, it had already turned out that they were wrong..but, again, they didn;t want to -do- science, they just needed it to sound sciencey. Irredicible complexity, for it;s part, was a specific enough proposition to be shown specifically false.
They didn;t mean to make it falsifiable, it;s just really hard to devise a genuinely untestable proposition. In any case, ID was never a theory, it never rose higher than a poorly formed hypothesis.
How is nonexistence of things testable except through difficulty in finding them?
