Group: sci.energy.hydrogen
From: z
Date: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 11:04 AM
Subject: Re: Science Heretics "Expelled."

On Apr 6, 5:18=A0pm, "daestrom"
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> >>>> On Sat, 05 Apr 2008 18:08:39 +1000, Terryc
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> >>>>>knews4u2c...@yahoo.com wrote:
> >>>>>> In the film, host Ben Stein tracks down
> >>>>>> scholars who have been "expelled" by the academic community for the=
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> >>>>>> support of intelligent design (ID), a research program that flies i=
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> >>>>>> the face of Darwinism.
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> >>>>>lol, there is no science in intelligent design,
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> >>>> Your biased opinion is noted
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> >>> So what disproof of ID is available?
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> >> Ever try to prove a negative?
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> >> Your question is a classic case of claiming, "Since you can't prove I'm=

> >> wrong, I must be right!!!"
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> > No I'm not. What I am saying is that if you want to consider ID as a
> > scientific theory you have to accept the possibility that it is wrong, a=
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> > you have to provide a principle that would allow us to determine whether=

> > it is true or not.
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> Okay, I see that I was wrong in interpreting your question. =A0I *assumed*=

> (and you know what that means), that you were asking for proof that ID is
> wrong in an attempt to show that it must be right because there is no proo=
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> against it. =A0My mistake, sorry 'bout that.
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> Quite frankly, I don't think there is any way to disprove ID, and so it is=

> not really a valid scientific theory. =A0If it isn't open to such disproof=
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> then there is no point in admitting it to scientific knowledge.
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well, you could show examples of stupid design, thereby disporving the
"intelligent" part Lots of those.