"Science rejects ID because it is not testable, it doesn't make testable predictions, and it relies solely on the subjective opinion of the observer."
I would argue that not only is ID testable, but that we have been testing ID for some time, and may go as far as to duplicate ID, the direct engineering of reality, and thus prove in the lab ID, as much as can be.
But to explain how Intelligent Design has been tested, one has to realize that the basics for this testing were not done to test ID. In the field of quantum physics, we were just testing for the fundamental behaviour and make-up for particles, and there accidentally discovered what should be the basics of Intelligent Design.
First, we discovered that matter does not self-exist, and does not exist in any one form at all without consciousness, or the potential for consciousness being present or could be present at some future events. There was some debate for decades about this interpretation, but clever experiments have indeed shown that it is not just the act of observation that causes what has been termed the collapsing of the wave function, but the mere threat of observation prior to any real observation has had this effect.
Thus, the concept of a direct and determinative effect of consciousness upon the physical universe is about as well-proven as anything can be in science of this nature, and certainly far more proven than things like the theory of common descent.
This wave/particle duality is at the heart of quantum physics and has now been demonstrated for much larger objects such as atoms, some molecules, and buckyballs, and even objects as large as planets have demonstrated wave-like properties.
Secondly, many physicists are claiming that the essential and fundamental property of all particles and things is information, and when you think of it existing as potentials for forms such as a wave or particle, then it becomes clear that this information exists apart from what we thought of as space-time, which explains the superluminal transfer of information that takes place through the next principle, entanglement.
Third, we have the principle of entanglement within quantum physics, which incidentally probably eclipses the whole concept of the Heisenberg Uncertainty principle, and we see superluminal effects, action at a distance, which suggests a structure within the universe more complex than our old Newtonian observations indicated.
So beyond what we have considered in the past as normal space-time, we see consciousness and information as the root of matter interacting and entangled very much as various spiritual traditions have claimed all along.
Intelligent Design presumes intelligence exists in a higher Consciousness. God Himself may be beyond our instruments and testing, but His interaction and the creative process may well have become part of the creation, and thus subject to the musings and tests of hard science.
I see the basic principles of quantum physics as hard experimental data lending strong evidence for Intelligent Design.
Edit to add: I forgot another basic principle, which basically is that anything is possible as a matter of law or principle. For example, old science would say that if you throw a ball against a wall, it will bounce back or cave in the wall, that this is a scientific fact proven by repeated experiments, such as throwing the ball against a wall 1000 times.
Quantum physics states this is false, that it only appears to be a law that the ball must bounce back or cave in the wall. In fact, quantum physics states it is law that the ball always has a slight chance, very small, of just going straight through the wall without seeming to even touch it!
In other words, miracles can always happen according to science. To claim the extremely rare, and seemingly impossible, is unscientific is actually to be unscientific. To claim such things are possible and do happen is now the only real scientific claim. Quantum physics has turned traditional science on it's head, but it remarkably consistent with what various spiritual traditions have said all along.
In the ball example, it would be a rare event indeed for such a large object to go through the wall out the other side without seeming to touch the wall (unless perhaps one learns how to manipulate the process), but it happens all the time with subatomic particles.
This message has been edited by randman, 05-26-2005 09:46 PM
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