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Statement # 2: We can accept Intelligent Design because it's testable.
Scientific Rule: Observation
Evidence: As with all scientific discovery there are certain rules that must be followed in order to forensically apply the evidence.
The four-step process of scientific discovery begins with observation and moves along to hypothesis, experimentation and conclusion. Many opponents of the intelligent design theory are not open to discussing what evidence may be uncovered using intelligent design theory. In many cases Darwinian evolutionists are unclear about what evidence exists for intelligent design.
Complex specified information (CSI) is a primary observable trait in anything which has design. This is true of computers and it is true of a folding chair. In human beings the trait of language can be described as profound CSI.
The hypothesis intelligent design proponents use is that mankind has the skills required to design simple and complex objects. We can observe the creation of these objects and conclude they were designed.
If mankind can design objects can we find evidence of design in the natural world around us?
The experimentation phase of the test involves beginning at the end and working toward the beginning. In Darwinian evolution each change would allow the living creature to continue functioning. When ID scientists work backwards they discover the removal of certain functions will not allow the object to continue to work. In essence the design fails when structures are removed. This concept is commonly referred to as irreducible complexity. In order for mankind to have survived, irreducible complexity would suggest individual species were designed fully functioning with a proclivity for reproduction.
The notion that mankind evolved through natural selection fails a fundamental test of scientific discovery. In the experimental phase of discovery the threads of evolutionary thought are frayed. As we work backwards from what exists we learn that living beings require fully functioning, co-existing systems in order to survive. If any of our systems were not working simultaneously then life as we know it would not exist now - nor in the past.
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