Re: black holes and intelligent design
From: William Penrose (wrp0143_at_comcast.com)
Date: 02/28/05
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Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 18:19:57 -0700
On 27 Feb 2005 15:59:47 -0800, cafeinst@msn.com wrote:
>It is a good scientific theory which is testible 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.
An intriguing, but naive, argument. You are proposing an experiment
to prove a negative, ie, if the experiment doesn't work, then God
exists, or ID works. It's futile, and would have earned my students a
D grade. Not for believing in God, but for not understanding how
science works.
Simple explanations are not necessarily correct explanations. Occam's
Razor is not a solution, just a tool, and not a very effective one.
Bill Penrose
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