From: "Gary Britt" 

What you describe as what ID says is NOT what I have been commenting upon
about ID.   It might be what someone else has said, but it is NOT what I
have been saying.

I've been merely pointing out that the hypotheses regarding the development
of life from something not alive all the way to modern man are obviously
not based upon direct observation and include many assumptions.  Those
assumptions require one to *believe* they are true and correct without
proof that they are true and correct.  That belief in those assumptions is
a form of *faith*.  I'm pointing out that those in the wholly scientific
stance have *faith* in their beliefs about the development of life.  That
they have things that they have *faith* are true and correct even though
they are at the very best merely implied/hinted at by some fossil or
something somewhere.  These same people then deride *faith* as though its
not scientific without even attempting to acknowledge the level of *faith*
they use everyday in their *belief* systems.

Gary

"Steve Ewing"  wrote in message
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> On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 11:54:03 -0500, Gary Britt 
> wrote:
>
> > science posits theories to explain existence without proof or method
> > also.
> > That's the real point.
> > Gary
>
> The point --the *whole* point-- is that there *is* a method!  What's it
> called?  "The Scientific Method."  As Tony says, contruct a hypothesis
> based on observed facts and test it.  If it passes the test, OK, on to the
> next test.  If it fails, it's out.  They are still testing the theory of
> relativity 100 years after it was first proposed, and that displaced the
> theory of gravity 300 years after *it* was proposed.
>
> A scientific hypothesis must be able to predict the results of a test.
> What does ID say?  "It was designed/created that way."  May
as well say it
> was touched by His Noodly Appendage.  No test can possibly fail under
> those circumstances.  If ID made predictions that could be tested, then
> they would be, and ID could stand or fall on its merits just as evolution
> does.
>
> --
> Steve 
> http://www.qmss.com/~sewing

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