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an excerpt from a report i wrote last year:
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So what is “Intelligent Design?” “Intelligent design” started in the early 1990’s with a resurgence of creationism, also known as neo-creationism. This resurgence believes that the universe and its contents are too complex to have arisen without an intelligent creator. The main driving force behind the “intelligent design” movement is the Discovery Institute, and one of their many facets is Center for Science and Culture. Their website defines “intelligent design” this way: “The theory of intelligent design holds that certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection.” Now, they don’t go out and say it, but this ‘intelligent designer’ is a god or a facsimile there of; but god can’t exist within science; it just does not work. Science must be verifiable, and many intelligent designers conveniently forget this, or flat out don’t know. Because there is no way to test the validity of a god, god is based off of faith, and faith cannot be tested by science. It is perfectly acceptable to believe in a god, or a creator, but they cannot exist in the realm of science; this is not to say that there is no god, just that science can not prove or disprove a god. Many real scientists believe in a god, but they realize that it is unverifiable and must be left out of scientific theories.
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The biggest rift between real scientist and the supporters of “intelligent design” is the lexicon they use, or in the case of intelligent designers misuse. It is this fundamental misunderstanding of scientific terms, mainly the word “Theory,” that the supporters of “intelligent design” grasp at to contradict evolution. Since it is so misunderstood, here are the definitions of three very misunderstood scientific words: Hypothesis--a hypothesis is an educated guess based upon observation, used to explain an event that has not yet been explained, hypothesizes are later supported or discredited with further experimentation and observation. Theory--a theory is a way to explain a set of related observations or events based on proven hypothesizes and verified by multiple scientist multiple times, and never disproved but it also must be falsifiable, it must make claims that if found to be false at a later date can be used to disprove it self. Scientific Law--a scientific law is beyond a theory, it is a statement of fact, usually mathematical, where it has always been proven true and is simple enough to always hold true(“Theory” Wikipedia). A theory is a way of modeling how the world works, and the theory holds until it is disproved, and at that time it is taken back to hypothesis and verified, until theory status can be re-obtained. Theories are not rigid; they change as new information is learned. We can never know all there is to know, and as such we can never truly explain everything there is to explain, but we can try and that is what a theory is. It is an attempt to explain the universe. When new evidence is uncovered that disproves a theory, the theory is scrapped back to a new hypothesis, tested, and worked back to a theory. Intelligent designers have a fundamental misunderstanding of the word theory, in a scientific context; this is due to their lack of scientific knowledge, and they believe that a theory is just a guess, where it is so much more, some examples of this can be found in the previously mention episode of Penn & Teller: Bullshit! (4:20), “Evolution has not met the test and deserves only to be treated as theory” and “Darwin considered it a theory, it is still a theory, it has never been proven, and never will be.” Both dead wrong, the speakers, who were unnamed in the program, don’t grasp the word theory, a theory will never be proven as fact. Even the theory of gravity, is still, just a theory. Gravity has been shown to be consistent time and time again, it has never been falsified but it can be. Evolution has met the test; it is shown time and time again with asexual microorganisms and can be observed in fast breeding sexual organism.
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oh and if my professors here and recognizes this report, send me a shout... and um... yes that is me in Tilted Exhibition
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Last edited by Dilbert1234567; 04-11-2007 at 10:23 AM..
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