Posted by Chris on August 28, 1998 at 11:30:21:
In Reply to: More of the same posted by GaDS on August 27, 1998 at 20:11:50:
1) You claim that scientists haven't been able to reproduce speciation. It is difficult to respond this challenge because it isn't always clear what a person (even a professional biologist!) means by speciation. What kind of experimental result would you count as a reproduction of speciation?
2) You claim that intelligent design in nature is a phenomenon that should be obvious to anyone who looks close enough. But anyone who first assumes intelligent design will certainly see all things in the light of intelligent desgin and the "theory" becomes self-fulfilling. Unfortunately, intelligent design is not testable and it makes no predictions.
2a) Can this "theory" be disproven in principle (as can evolution by natural selection), or is it constructed in such a way that it assimilates every new observation? Can you describe one (hypothetical) new observation or experimental result that would disprove, or even challenge, the claim of intelligent design in nature?
2b) What does the theory of intelligent design predict? Describe an experiment that could test this prediction. What might life on earth look like in a million years?
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