Author:
Wade A. Tisthammer
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Date Posted: 07/14/04 5:24pm
In reply to:
Ben
's message, "Alernate explanations are easy to create" on 07/14/04 4:15pm
>>>It's not my "uncle," no. But there is no doubt it is
>>>related to me. Darwin first figured it out, and then
>>>modern science, particularly DNA comparison, has
>>>verified it.
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>>Has it? We've found similarities to be sure. But
>>there are different interpretations of the data here.
>>One alternate explanation: similar biological
>>structures (as DNA) for similar functions. A TI-85
>>and a TI-86 graphing calculator have numerous
>>similarities. Nonetheless, that doesn't imply that
>>they evolved from a common ancestor.
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>Here's another alternate explanation: maybe an apple
>fell from a tree and, when it hit the ground,
>instantly turned into an ape. And maybe, in another
>place, an orange fell, but the orange turned into a
>human when it hit the ground. Alternate explanations
>are easy to find, but science looks for the _most
>likely_ scenario
True, but ID doesn't look nearly as implausible to me as an orange instantly turning into an ape.
>As we've gone over and over on this
>board, our common ancestry with apes is supported by
>various branches of science, and is by far the best
>interpretation of the evidence as a whole.
That's a bit open to debate. Note, for instance, the apparently dismal track record regarding fossils and human evolution.
>So you can think that an invisible creator created all
>these things with the _appearance_ of being related to
>each other when they actually aren't
And you can think that nature using invisible and unknown processes created life with the _appearance_ of being designed when they actually aren't. (Indeed, the term "designoid" has been coined to describe this.) You see, I can play the same game too. Who said the creator was invisible anyway? Modern ID theory does not make any claims about the designer. We can tell if something is designed even if we don't know by whom.
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