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To: The Philosopher who wrote (152364)12/22/2005 11:15:50 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 793955
 
Why isn't it scientific to ask whether there are other intelligent beings that also change life forms? What is unscientific about that?


Nothing at all - but you need to explain, by means of empirical and reproducable evidence, why Intelligent Design works as an explanation while the current theory of random change combined with survival of the fittest (a process that not only has huge amounts of evidence, but has been reproduced in scientific experiments for humans to observe) does not work.

Saying, "Look, this life form is very, very complicated and evolution hasn't explained every step of how it evolved" is not sufficient. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. And you haven't done any better for your theory, unless your underlying assumption is that ID is a miraculous process and that by definition, it can do anything. Such an assumption would show that ID is prima facie a theological and not a scientific proposition.
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