I think You might have missed the explanation of how falsifiability is applied to theories. In the scientific method, a test is devised to see if a possible explanation is not true, as opposed to true. Possible explanations are only ruled-out by the scientific method and not ruled-in. Given the consistency of current cosmological models with respect predictions and experimental results, One can reasonably conclude when the universe was created, it had no Life and, since it has Life now, Life must have come into existence at some point. Whether that Life spontaneously appeared on earth or arrived, say, from "a chunk of rock from space", the fact would remain Life had to spontaneously appear/somewhere/ in the universe. The question is, "How?"
Evolutionary theory makes predictions which can be tested in laboratory conditions to determine if results match the predictions. If they didn't, an explanation would be necessary to account for such. One such explanation might be minor tweaking or, if another explanation made identical predictions in previous experiments but made an accurate one for this hypothetical experiment in question, evolutionary theory might be eschewed in favor of this alternative theory. The problem with i.d. is it makes no predictions and cannot make any predictions which can be tested. As a result, i.d. is a philosophy at best and not scientific.
I guess all the people of slashdot would rather stifle any differing opinion--that's rather sad.
No, if the People of slashdot were trying to "stifle any differing opinion", I doubt Your objection would have gotten thru to this board. And, yet, it has.
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I think You might have missed the explanation of how falsifiability is applied to theories. In the scientific method, a test is devised to see if a possible explanation is not true, as opposed to true. Possible explanations are only ruled-out by the scientific method and not ruled-in. Given the consistency of current cosmological models with respect predictions and experimental results, One can reasonably conclude when the universe was created, it had no Life and, since it has Life now, Life must have come into existence at some point. Whether that Life spontaneously appeared on earth or arrived, say, from "a chunk of rock from space", the fact would remain Life had to spontaneously appear /somewhere/ in the universe. The question is, "How?"
Evolutionary theory makes predictions which can be tested in laboratory conditions to determine if results match the predictions. If they didn't, an explanation would be necessary to account for such. One such explanation might be minor tweaking or, if another explanation made identical predictions in previous experiments but made an accurate one for this hypothetical experiment in question, evolutionary theory might be eschewed in favor of this alternative theory. The problem with i.d. is it makes no predictions and cannot make any predictions which can be tested. As a result, i.d. is a philosophy at best and not scientific.
I guess all the people of slashdot would rather stifle any differing opinion--that's rather sad.
No, if the People of slashdot were trying to "stifle any differing opinion", I doubt Your objection would have gotten thru to this board. And, yet, it has.
The majority of academia don't believe in any gods whatsoever (poly, mono or whatonot).
Do You have a study showing those statistics?