Re: black holes and intelligent design

From: Craig Franck (craig.franck_at_verizon.net)
Date: 02/28/05 

Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 01:39:15 GMT

<cafeinst@msn.com> wrote

> I sense hostility in many of the replies to my arguments. Why? The
> theory of intelligent design explains how life got here.

The issue isn't what it explains -- it explains everything simultaneously
-- the issue is what kind of explanation or statement it is.

> It is a good scientific theory which is testible

This claim is the problem. ID is not a scientific theory.

> and has passed the
> test: The fact that no one has ever been able to recreate life from
> scratch or even describe precisely the steps of how life evolved
> implies that the mechanism for producing life is too sophisticated for
> man to understand. And this implies that life could not have started by
> accident, since if so, man would be able to duplicate such an accident
> in a laboratory easily. Therefore, life must have come about through
> intelligent design.

The reasoning:

    we can't do or give a detailed explanation of X at the moment;
    therefore,
    X cannot be accomplished by a natural process

is not a test. It's not valid reasoning. I'd call it a folk argument.

Also, the idea that because man cannot understand something we must
leave the realm of normal scientific explanation is silly on the face of it.

> I am sorry if you don't want to believe it,

I'm sorry you can't accept that the vast majority of scientists consider
your test for intelligent design ludicrous.

> but it is the best
> scientific theory out there for explaining the origin of life.

It only seems that way to you. 

-- 
Craig Franck
craig.franck@verizon.net
Cortland, NY

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