Is Intelligent Design Science?

Philosopher, Alvin Plantinga, addresses the arguments made by the judge in the Dover case. He was not impressed.

Date: March 7, 2006

Sago Boulevard :: Plantinga on Falsifiability and Intelligent Design :: March :: 2006 says:

March 10, 2006 at 12:18 pm

[...] Alvin Plantinga rips into Judge John Jones’ decision in Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School District (via Mr. Grouchypants). One of the things I find most annoying about the ID debate is the argument that ID isn’t science because the claims it makes aren’t testable and falsifiable. To which Plantinga responds: For example, the statement “God has designed 800-pound rabbits that live in Cleveland” is clearly testable, clearly falsifiable and indeed clearly false. Testability can’t be taken as a criterion for distinguishing scientific from nonscientific statements. That is because in the typical case individual statements are not verifiable or falsifiable. [...]

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