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Talk:Intelligent design (view source)
Revision as of 16:19, January 5, 2013
, 16:19, January 5, 2013→Double Standards for Intelligent Design: new section
Other articles now say that Dawkins is an agnostic, not an atheist. Should this one be amended along similar lines?--[[User:CPalmer|CPalmer]] 10:26, 28 February 2012 (EST)
Other articles now say that Dawkins is an agnostic, not an atheist. Should this one be amended along similar lines?--[[User:CPalmer|CPalmer]] 10:26, 28 February 2012 (EST)
== Double Standards for Intelligent Design ==
One of the 15 questions for evolution is "Why is a fundamentally religious idea, a dogmatic belief system that fails to explain the evidence, taught in science classes?" Creation Ministries International claims that evolution is not testable (and thus not science) for the following reasons:
-Evolution does not predict anything
-Evolution makes certain a priori or metaphysical assumptions
However, replace evolution with intelligent design and the same objections exist. Intelligent design does not predict anything, since presumably we don't know what the designer will do. And intelligent design makes the assumption of an intelligent designer. Thus, by Creation Ministries International's standards, intelligent design is just as unscientific as evolution. [[User:RaymondZ|RaymondZ]] 11:19, 5 January 2013 (EST)