Untestable Hypotheses
If you haven’t heard by now, U.S. federal Judge John E. Jones III decided the previous Dover, PA school board acted unconstitutionally when they ordered teaching of intelligent design in biology classes.
From what I understand so far, topping his list of reasons are (1) the former school board members acted inappropriately, and (2) that intelligent design has no scientific basis, but evolution does.
As for the first reason, fine, I can go along with that. However, I take issue with the second.
Today the Seatle Times reports, ”’The centuries-old ground rules of science’ make clear that a scientific theory must rely solely on natural explanations that can be tested, he [Judge Jones] wrote.”
Sure, I agree that a lot of intelligent design is untestable.
But in like fasion, the theory of evolution is filled with natural explanations that cannot be tested. That it would take millions of years to run an evolution experiment pretty much puts it in the “untestable” category.
Given his reasoning, shouldn’t he have also tossed out evolution?
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Today the Indianapolis Star published an article that touches on the holes in eveolutionary theory.
— Lee Dec 21, 02:33 PM #