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Author Topic:   Intelligent Design vs. Real Science
Buzsaw
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Message 46 of 142 (600682)
01-16-2011 10:41 AM
Reply to: Message 45 by frako
01-16-2011 8:25 AM


Re: When ID Becomes Scientific
frako writes:
What mechanism or process did he use to make the elements?
When he designed the animals and mankind, for example, he took soil, intelligently assembling the elements into what he wished to make. In that he, having a higher intelligence than that of the creatures which he made, including mankind, he had the knowledge and ability to assemble and fashion the elements into what pleased him to make.
After he fashioned the body he inflated the lungs with his life giving breath, having properties suitable for initiating life into the fashioned body
Having the intelligence significantly higher than a snail, mankind is able to transform trees, gravel, forces, iron/copper/lead etc ore, oil, etc into a beautiful home. The snail's intelligence cannot comprehend how mankind made the home, but humans who do not understand electromagnetism, wood processing and how to make plastic etc, who do not build homes observe that it can be done.
We, like the snail observe ordered complex systems, organisms and forces etc existing. Having higher intelligence than the snail, however, we can observe corroborating evidences of the Biblical god, Jehovah via the prophecies, archeological phenomena and historical events which are supportive to the existence of an intelligent designer.
Thus the topic debate of this thread, Intelligent Design vs Real Science boils down to debating the evidence supportive to such a designer.

BUZSAW B 4 U 2 C Y BUZ SAW.
The Immeasurable Present Eternally Extends the Infinite Past And Infinitely Consumes The Eternal Future.
Time Relates To What Is Temperal. What Is Eternal Is Timeless.

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jar
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Message 47 of 142 (600683)
01-16-2011 10:54 AM
Reply to: Message 46 by Buzsaw
01-16-2011 10:41 AM


Re: When ID Becomes Scientific
Buz writes:
When he designed the animals and mankind, for example, he took soil, intelligently assembling the elements into what he wished to make. In that he, having a higher intelligence than that of the creatures which he made, including mankind, he had the knowledge and ability to assemble and fashion the elements into what pleased him to make.
How did he do that Buz, did he move genes around using a pipette or just his fingers.
Buz writes:
After he fashioned the body he inflated the lungs with his life giving breath, having properties suitable for initiating life into the fashioned body
How do that work Buz, what exactly is it in that magic breath that is life giving? What are those properties? What is their chemical makeup?
Buz writes:
Thus the topic debate of this thread, Intelligent Design vs Real Science boils down to debating the evidence supportive to such a designer.
No Buz, the issue is that there is a model in real science while there is NO model or even knowledge to be gained in Inept Design.
Try providing a model.
ID will become scientific when, and only when, a model is presented and tested that explains how the designer interacts to control outcomes. Of course, once that happens the designer is no longer relevant except as an historical footnote or in the case of product liability suits.
Edited by jar, : add last paragraph

Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!

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Dawn Bertot
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Message 48 of 142 (600752)
01-16-2011 11:39 PM
Reply to: Message 47 by jar
01-16-2011 10:54 AM


Re: When ID Becomes Scientific
ID will become scientific when, and only when, a model is presented and tested that explains how the designer interacts to control outcomes. Of course, once that happens the designer is no longer relevant except as an historical footnote or in the case of product liability suits.
I see you didnt pay very close attention in the thread i had concerning the matter of intelligent design
The model is no different than yours, except for the fact that it is not so involved because it does not need to be overly involved
An elaborate examination such as yours only exists because you examine every detail in nature that is provided in nature.
ID is an intial examination of obvious order, the likes of which are necessarily the product of design. No other or more involved examination is required to produce this very scientific fact
However, if one does choose to examine closer or over and over the results will be the same
To deny that ID has a model is to deny that you yourself have a model, because ours is no different, just not as involved
All you need to do to demonstrate that ID is not scientific is to prove that we do not have a method or model
Now how in the world would you ever do that? Asserting there is no model and demonstrating it logically are two different things. Try the latter
Examination is just examination, no matter the depth or involvement
I am surprised you did not learn this from the previous thread
Further, Im not sure how you arrived at the comical conclusion that after discovering the model, that the designer is somehow irrelevent. That doesnt even follow logically
Dawn Bertot
Edited by Dawn Bertot, : No reason given.

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Coyote
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Message 49 of 142 (600753)
01-16-2011 11:55 PM
Reply to: Message 48 by Dawn Bertot
01-16-2011 11:39 PM


Re: When pigs fly
ID is an intial examination of obvious order, the likes of which are necessarily the product of design. No other or more involved examination is required to produce this very scientific fact
However, if one does choose to examine closer or over and over the results will be the same
You have no model. You have nothing but a priori belief.
We have asked creationists masquerading as IDers time and time again to provide the method for determining what is designed and what is not designed. We have yet to receive an answer that fits the scientific model. All we get is "I know design when I see it" (akin to a former Supreme Court Justice's method for identifying obscenity).
You even admit this yourself by your quote above. "Obvious order" is what you say it is, not something for which you can devise a set of rules to differentiate from "obvious disorder" or "naturally occurring" etc.
If you disagree, just provide a set of rules to identify this "obvious order." If it is to obvious it should be easy for you to do.
Remember, your rules have to differentiate between "obvious order" and natural occurrences, and those rules must be consistent and highly accurate or they are useless.
To deny that ID has a model is to deny that you yourself have a model, because ours is no different, just not as involved
All you need to do to demonstrate that ID is not scientific is to prove that we do not have a method or model
I just offered you a way to demonstrate that ID is scientific. Show us the method, the rules, for differentiating design from non-design.
Until you start to follow the scientific method you have no claim to be doing science.
(Actually, what you are doing is the exact opposite of science. You are assuming your answer based on scripture and the like and rejecting anything that does not conform. That's the opposite of science! And you're not fooling anyone who knows something about how science works.)

Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.

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jar
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Message 50 of 142 (600797)
01-17-2011 10:44 AM
Reply to: Message 48 by Dawn Bertot
01-16-2011 11:39 PM


Re: When ID Becomes Scientific
When you present the model for how the designer intervenes then perhaps we can discuss it. Simply continuing to say it is the same model means nothing.

Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!

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Dawn Bertot
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Message 51 of 142 (600806)
01-17-2011 11:15 AM
Reply to: Message 49 by Coyote
01-16-2011 11:55 PM


Re: When pigs fly
We have asked creationists masquerading as IDers time and time again to provide the method for determining what is designed and what is not designed. We have yet to receive an answer that fits the scientific model. All we get is "I know design when I see it" (akin to a former Supreme Court Justice's method for identifying obscenity).
You even admit this yourself by your quote above. "Obvious order" is what you say it is, not something for which you can devise a set of rules to differentiate from "obvious disorder" or "naturally occurring" etc.
But you are missing the point entirely. Asking someone to provide you a model for ID ignores several obvious points
1. That you have a model and we do not for the explanation of things, you do not
2. That your model is something more than simple explanations of things, it is not
3. That our model of identifying something is different than yours, it is not
4. That your "model" can demonstrate it is simply and soley natural order, it cannot
5. That your "model" can remove the premise of demonstratable order, or even if it appears to be ordered, it cannot
These assumptions on your behalf, leave ID as not only a model for the explanation of things but makes it as an scientific investigation as any provided
Unless you you can demonstrate why the above assumptions are somehow not applicable or invalid
Dawn Bertot

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dwise1
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Message 52 of 142 (600815)
01-17-2011 11:37 AM
Reply to: Message 51 by Dawn Bertot
01-17-2011 11:15 AM


Re: When pigs fly
Dawn, science does have models and theories to explain those models; ID has neither models nor theories.
Science has a methodologies for working with evidence to build hypotheses, models, and theories; ID has no demonstrable methodologies.
Science, in particular archaeology, has methodologies for determining whether something was designed; ID has demonstrated no methodology for detecting or determining design.
We have repeatedly requested that you stop bullshitting and that you present ID's methodology for detecting and determining design. You persist in refusing to present any methodology and instead just keep repeating the same old bullshit, thus implicitly admitting that you have nothing.
Assuming design in everthing a priori serves no practical purpose -- recall the folk analysis of "assume" such that it makes an ass out of everybody. What possible use can the a priori assumption of design have for understanding how a particular natural phenomenon works?
You want to have ID taught in the public schools. What educational value could that possibly have? What happens when it is taught to schoolchildren? We see the products of fundamentalist/evangelical/conservative Christian upbringing and education, where ID and other aspects of creationism are taught non-stop: a generation whom you consider to be slackard hangers-on who merely associate with Christianity because they are deconverting from Christianity in droves.
Dawn, if you actually have some actual support for ID, then please present it and stop bullshitting.

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Dawn Bertot
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Message 53 of 142 (600817)
01-17-2011 11:40 AM
Reply to: Message 50 by jar
01-17-2011 10:44 AM


Re: When ID Becomes Scientific
When you present the model for how the designer intervenes then perhaps we can discuss it. Simply continuing to say it is the same model means nothing.
You clearly dont understand simple reasoning. Showing how he intervenes is absolutely not necessary, if I can demonstrate in an examination and in logical form the order that indicates that he does.
Youve mixed up two things where one is not required for the other
How presumptuous of you Jar to jump from point A to C, sidestepping B, by assuming I need a model other than that which I already have
You need to demonstrate that my clearly existing model is not sufficient to the purpose that it is provides, to demonstrate clear order in the nature of things
Since you cannot do this it follows logically that it is not only a Model but it is exacally the same as nyone else uses
Besides all of that,what specifically does your "model" provide to us that IDs does not?

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Coyote
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Message 54 of 142 (600818)
01-17-2011 11:41 AM
Reply to: Message 51 by Dawn Bertot
01-17-2011 11:15 AM


Re: When pigs fly
I'm not missing the point at all.
You have been asked time and time again to provide any consistent rules for differentiating design from non-design. You can't do it.
Until you can show some method for distinguishing design you are at the "I know it when I see it" stage.
And that's not science, that's religious belief.
Now either present some rules for distinguishing design or stop pretending ID is science.

Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.

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Dawn Bertot
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Message 55 of 142 (600822)
01-17-2011 11:51 AM
Reply to: Message 52 by dwise1
01-17-2011 11:37 AM


Re: When pigs fly
We have repeatedly requested that you stop bullshitting and that you present ID's methodology for detecting and determining design. You persist in refusing to present any methodology and instead just keep repeating the same old bullshit, thus implicitly admitting that you have nothing.
My simple friend try and understand how reason and critical thinking works. I have repeadely provided you with a model, by simple examination, observation and conclusions, not any different than yours.
If I am making assumptions, yours are much worse and you dont even see it
Now watch Dewise, if mine is not a model then show how
A. It is not an examination
B. Show why that examination process is not a model
C. Show why the conclusions of that examination oand model do not follow the same rules as your model
D. Show why the conclusions of the ID model arent as valid as any reached by the SM
You cant jump from point A to C by assuming all these things concerning our methodology
When you can demonstrate that the conclusions reached by the SM, ie, by soley natural causes is any more valid than the clearly observable order, you will have demonstrated that we have no model and yours is superior
because you dont understand simple reasoning, you think you are justified in your assumption that we have no model
Show the above points ot be invalid then you will be justified in your assumptions

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Dawn Bertot
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Message 56 of 142 (600824)
01-17-2011 12:01 PM
Reply to: Message 54 by Coyote
01-17-2011 11:41 AM


Re: When pigs fly
I'm not missing the point at all.
You have been asked time and time again to provide any consistent rules for differentiating design from non-design. You can't do it.
Until you can show some method for distinguishing design you are at the "I know it when I see it" stage.
And that's not science, that's religious belief.
Now either present some rules for distinguishing design or stop pretending ID is science.
So then you wont make an attempt at responding to the clear assumptions on your part I have provided
Until you respond to those assumptions on your part I have provided, then I cant take your assertion serious that we have no model, it is not science and you test things differently than we do and arrive at better conclusions
I say your assertion that I have no model is just that an assertion. If I am wrong them break down those thinngs I provided and show why
It is a further assertion by yourself that I have provided no model
it is an assertion by yourself that my model is not a model
Here is your opportunity to demonstrate why my above points are not valid
clear, obvious, observable and demonstrable order are not "I know it when I see it"
Its there for any scrutiny
Dawn Bertot

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Dawn Bertot
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Message 57 of 142 (600827)
01-17-2011 12:10 PM
Reply to: Message 52 by dwise1
01-17-2011 11:37 AM


Re: When pigs fly
You want to have ID taught in the public schools. What educational value could that possibly have? What happens when it is taught to schoolchildren? We see the products of fundamentalist/evangelical/conservative Christian upbringing and education, where ID and other aspects of creationism are taught non-stop: a generation whom you consider to be slackard hangers-on who merely associate with Christianity because they are deconverting from Christianity in droves.
Dawn, if you actually have some actual support for ID, then please present it and stop bullshitting. [/qs]
dewise, you cant address arguments with assumptions. i have provided you with a method and a model and all you need to to is show WHY, not assert, that those conclusions are invalid.
deal with the assumptions I have suggested you are making, then lets see if ID doesnt have a model and I havent presented one
The educational value is that it is science and it is very logical. You simply dont like it because it implies creation and God. But that is not what the argument is about
My guess is that you wont attempt this because you dont know how to respond to that argument
Edited by Dawn Bertot, : No reason given.
Edited by Dawn Bertot, : No reason given.

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Coyote
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Message 58 of 142 (600828)
01-17-2011 12:11 PM
Reply to: Message 56 by Dawn Bertot
01-17-2011 12:01 PM


Re: When pigs fly
clear, obvious, observable and demonstrable order are not "I know it when I see it"
So how do you know? HOW DO YOU KNOW?
What rules allow you to predict, with accuracy and confidence, what is designed and what is natural?
Face it, you have nothing resembling science. You have belief so strong that you can't even see what you are doing. But belief is not science--it is the opposite.

Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.

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Dawn Bertot
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Message 59 of 142 (600830)
01-17-2011 12:22 PM
Reply to: Message 58 by Coyote
01-17-2011 12:11 PM


Re: When pigs fly
So how do you know? HOW DO YOU KNOW?
What rules allow you to predict, with accuracy and confidence, what is designed and what is natural?
Face it, you have nothing resembling science. You have belief so strong that you can't even see what you are doing. But belief is not science--it is the opposite.
You resuse to deal with that I have provided. You are again jumping from A toC. I have provided you with a model and you refuse to show why it in not a model
Lets just start there C and please explain via the assertions I accussed you of why what I presented is not a model and scientific
Give it a whirl

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jar
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Message 60 of 142 (600832)
01-17-2011 12:25 PM
Reply to: Message 53 by Dawn Bertot
01-17-2011 11:40 AM


Re: When ID Becomes Scientific
And so you have no model to present.
Sorry Charlie, you don't even get the worm.

Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!

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