Wednesday, April 25, 2007

ID fits the evidence!

Columbia Medical Professor John Marshall, a signer of the ‘Dissent From Darwinism’ document, likes intelligent design. Says Marshall:

“It’s as much science as Darwinian evolution is science,” Marshall said. “And as a theory, I believe that intelligent design fits the evidence of biology better than Darwinian evolution.”
OK. Given that ID says NOTHING about the designer, it also follows that the designer could be - just to name a few from an infinite list - your next-door neighbour Albert, an intelligent gas cloud, God or Howard the Duck. For the same reason, a potential designer could have designed ANYTHING and make things look ANYWAY it wanted. So, when Marshall says that "intelligent design fits the evidence of biology better than Darwinian evolution" he is not totally wrong for the simple reason that ANYTHING and EVERYTHING can count as evidence for ID. And as anyone who even knows he tiniest bit about scientific evidence, this goes TOTALLY against Marshall's claim that “It’s as much science as Darwinian evolution is science” . Real scientific theories have to be testable and in order for them to be so, we can't have every single observation possible count as evidence for them.

If ID is science, then so is my claim that "everything is because of qwerty ".

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