On Sun, 21 May 2006, Pim van Meurs wrote:
> <quote>FALSIFIABILITY: Is intelligent design falsifiable? Is Darwinism
> falsifiable? Yes to the first question, no to the second. Intelligent
> design is eminently falsifiable. Specified complexity in general and
> irreducible complexity in biology are within the theory of intelligent
> design the key markers of intelligent agency. If it could be shown that
> biological systems like the bacterial flagellum that are wonderfully
> complex, elegant, and integrated could have been formed by a gradual
> Darwinian process (which by definition is non-telic), then intelligent
> design would be falsified on the general grounds that one doesn't invoke
> intelligent causes when purely natural causes will do. In that case
> Occam's razor finishes off intelligent design quite nicely.</quote>
This is another example of confusing intelligent design and Intelligent
Design.
Gordon Brown
Department of Mathematics
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0395
Received on Sun May 21 20:33:24 2006
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