wj writes:
So ex, shorn of the empty rhetoric, all your message offers is a god of the gaps.
Yes. I already said that I thought that the current state of ID was mostly an
appeal to ignorance -- simply pointing to the limits of our understanding and saying God might be beyond there.
What weren't you grasping when I said this earlier?
Mr. Ex Nihilo writes:
Currently, ID seems to be simply pointing out the limits of human knowledge and inferring God from the lack of evidence thereof -- an argument from ignorance. However, at some point, in redefining their arguments more clearly, they may be able to achieve their desired goal.
wj writes:
No testable hypothesis.
The hypothesis is that an intelligent designer created all things -- which is a valid hypothesis. This has not been formulated to the level that I would consider it testable yet. At its current state it cannot be adequately falsified.
wj writes:
No predictions which can be tested against future reseach and discoveries.
The prediction is that an intelligent designer created all things -- which is a valid prediction. This has not been formulated to the level that I would consider it testable yet. At its current state it cannot be adequately falsified.
wj writes:
Perhaps you could expound why a judeo-christian 7 day pattern should be of any importance. And which particular "scripture" should be examined in the light of scientific evidence?
Mankind has always been aware of rhythms -- they surround us. We live with daily rhythms of tides, light and darkness, monthly rhythms of the moon, seasonal rhythms of birth, growth, harvest, hot and cold, and annual cycles of the sun, migrations, floods and drought.
We have also observed cycles in our bodies which interact with those around us such as our daily sleep rhythms, daily temperature and blood pressure fluctuations, and the menstrual cycle which follows the lunar cycle precisely averaging 29.5 days.
However, until recently science has been aware of only the more obvious rhythms. Now the new science of chronobiology has begun to roll back frontiers revealing a universe replete with rhythms. The relatively new science of chronobiology has uncovered some totally unexpected facts about living things, as Susan Perry and Jim Dawson report in their book The Secrets Our Body Clock Reveal.
Although I don't agree with all things stated in this link, you can find more information on this subject here...
Bible Study - You Have Questions. The Bible Has Answers!
To my knowledge, no one predicted the extreme regularity of molecular relationships that we now call the molecular clock, but this phenomenon became "just what evolutionary theory
would predict" --
after the theory was substantially modified to accommodate the new evidence. Even then, the circaseptan rhythm still appears to have no natural parallel within nature to
tune itself to.
This message has been edited by Mr. Ex Nihilo, 06-08-2005 11:19 PM