http://grouchypants.net/2006/03/07/is-intelligent-design-science/ Filled with an intense, burning indifference. Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:20:50 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://grouchypants.net/2006/03/07/is-intelligent-design-science/comment-page-1/#comment-26 Sago Boulevard :: Plantinga on Falsifiability and Intelligent Design :: March :: 2006 Fri, 10 Mar 2006 18:18:13 +0000 http://grouchypants.net/?p=130#comment-26 [...] 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. [...] [...] 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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