Re:Publicly Funded Schools That Are Allowed to Teach Creatio...
by joshfraser on Tuesday January 28, 2014 @09:15PM
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I think you're reacting to a lot more than what I actually said. The indisputable fact is that you and I weren't there and it's impossible to prove either intelligent design or evolution because neither is reproducible.
Re:Publicly Funded Schools That Are Allowed to Teach Creatio...
by cpleppert on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @02:09AM
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>>it's impossible to prove either intelligent design or evolution because neither is reproducible.
I don't even know where to begin..... If that was the case science could tell us nothing about anything that isn't perfectly reproducible.
Re:Publicly Funded Schools That Are Allowed to Teach Creatio...
by bediger4000 on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @09:48AM
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OK. I admit defeat. But explain the geological column and the fossil record in terms of something other than a specific religion's creation story.
You're focussing too much on reproducibility, as I said.
As far as intelligent design, I'll agree to teaching that, as long as we follow up on the consequences. First, what criteria can I apply on my own to decide whether a biological feature (the vertebrate eye, for example) is irreducibly complex? Second, what does the existence of intelligent design have to say about theology and the various hagiographies? Does ID make monotheism or polytheism more likely for example? Can we determine characteristics of God or gods based on examples of Design?
There are plenty of observational sciences, astronomy and geology and economics among them. What you wrote is hackneyed and untrue.