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The utility of ID

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RAZD
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11-04-2005 6:54 AM 		Reply to: Message 14 by Silent H
11-04-2005 6:20 AM

Re: Detecting design.
Conversely if such designs could not be recognized in any way that would kind of put the kibosh on the whole ID concept.
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That would make it a falsification test eh?
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except that it is proving a negative ...
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11-07-2005 7:55 PM 		Reply to: Message 23 by Omnivorous
11-07-2005 9:59 AM

Re: Seriously - ID is a mental end-game.
The problem with ID as I see it is that it can only apply after all normal scientific explanations are exhausted, and it still doesn't answer the question or prevent a future scientific explanation.
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This makes ID a mental end-game with no real purpose other than comfort to those who find little in the real world.
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When you think about genetic manipulation (where a specific mutation is artificially induced) and compare that to an actual random mutation (occuring by chance), is there any way that you can conceive of a test to differentiate them?
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