RE: The Watchmaker: my fav argument
March 21, 2021 at 4:49 am
(This post was last modified: March 21, 2021 at 4:52 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(March 20, 2021 at 9:28 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote:(March 20, 2021 at 8:49 pm)Angrboda Wrote: Your claim that it is an argument against evolution rather than an argument for design is false because it metonymously refers to both.
I agree, as you point out, that it can refer to both of these arguments; I have not made a claim to the contrary. What I am against, however, is the deductive argument that intelligent design predicts irreducible complexity. Keep in mind that you are responding to my response to Nudger, who forwarded such an argument: "It [intelligent design] posited an irreducible complexity which does not exist." He therefore concludes that intelligent design has "been falsified."
That is an invalid argument.
ID did, as a matter of public fact which anyone can look up for themselves, predict that they would observe specified complexities, and irreducible complexities. Their claims to that observation were shown to be false, and worse, poorly constructed on top of that. Further, their very own claims and examples were evidence of the antithetical position.
You're studying science. Is there a word for what's happened when someone says they have a scientific theory, makes predictions, those predictions fail, and the evidence that would suggest their theory was inaccurate, instead, presents itself?
Would you like to argue over the meaning of words for a few more pages? I won't be here for it.
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