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Heres a short rant on creationism and intelligent design...leaving alone weather god exists or not (whole seperate issue) there are many many many things wrong with ID
The argument: they say that we shouldnt believe in evolution because its not really a theory and even if it is its a shaky and innaccurate theory and that ID is an acceptable alternative theory to evolution
the retort: In scientific usage, a theory does not mean an unsubstantiated guess or hunch, as it can in everyday speech. A theory is a logically self-consistent model or framework for describing the behavior of a related set of natural or social phenomena. It originates from or is supported by rigorous observations in the natural world, or by experimental evidence (see scientific method). In this sense, a theory is a systematic and formalized expression of all previous observations, and is predictive, logical, and testable. In principle, scientific theories are always tentative, and subject to corrections, inclusion in a yet wider theory, or succession. Commonly, many more specific hypotheses may be logically bound together by just one or two theories. As a rule for use of the term, theories tend to deal with much broader sets of universals than do hypotheses, which ordinarily deal with much more specific sets of phenomena or specific applications of a theory. this all just copy and pasted from an amalgam of sources otherwise known as wikipedia (the above is damn accurate so dont say that wiki is a bad source) but anyways going on the above definition of a theory evolution fits it. its a framework for describing the natural phenomena of why animals are here and why they look like/behave as they do. it originated and is supported by rigorous observations (even if darwin didnt do enough theres hundreds of pages of support researched by other scientists) tehre is also experimental evidence (fruit fly research) it is predicatable, logical and testable (again fruit flies) now on the other hand you would be hard pressed to fit ID into that definition because we all know that we can test for the existence of a creator and that we can predict what types of insects and rodents will be around hundreds of years from now because this creator lets us know and furthermore a creator is not natural also by the logic they use gravity doesnt really exist either its just that creator thingy willing things to stay on the surface and such