[CS-FSLUG] Re: Intelligent design...

[Timothy Butler]

>
> Bzzzzt!  Failing grade.
>
> Requiring somene else to prove a negative in order to make
> another's argument valid is a failed method based on first-year
> logic and critical thinking.

     But that is the basic scientific method (falsification). You  
must show me how your premise could be proven false to show me that  
you are actually saying something meaningful. Anything meaningful can  
be proven false, given enough time. The one exception, would be God  
himself. Since we cannot glimpse eternity without God's help, and we  
need to do so to falsify Him, we can only positively verify Him, not  
negatively (see my other post).

     You do not need to disprove something to prove it (that would be  
illogical), but you must be able to show how it could be disproved.  
That is, if C != A, and B = A, then B != C. That doesn't mean B != C,  
but that if B = A, then B != C.


> "God" is not required for intelligent design to be clearly
> and scientifically superior to evolution, merely an intelligent
> designer.

     Who but God? :-) I guess, Hume's council of demons.... but other  
than that.

     -Tim

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