Bertvan:
> In any case, while neither philosophy might be provable, one description of
>reality is more accurate than the other. Perhaps we will only be able to
>determine the relative merits of materialism and ID by the results which they
>produce.
Immaterialism and supernaturalism had their shot at explaining reality for
thousands of years. Science wasn't even invented until those ideas were
discarded.
>Materialism gave us Freud, Marx, Darwinism and E.O. Wilson. I
>wonder what ID will produce?
What it produced before the Enlighenment of the early 19th century.
Alchemy, phrenology, astrology, etc. Neither you nor Stephen have answered
my question about what immaterialist-supernaturalist science would look
like. For example: what if you wanted to find out what lightening is and
what causes it. How would you use the idea of "design" or "immaterialism"
to investigate the phenomenon?
Or does ID *only* apply to the issue the Creationists care about?
Susan
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