Re: Article: Bush Remarks On 'Intelligent Design' Theory Fuel Debate

In article <o2CIe.70324$Ph4.2188985@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Nasht0n <na@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> ZnU wrote:
>
> > In article <zHfIe.9647$_%4.8091@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> > "ed" <news_test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>In news:1123121450.760494.114710@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
> >>dfritzin@xxxxxxxxxxx <dfritzin@xxxxxxxxxxx> typed:
> >>
> >>>ed wrote:
> >
> >
> >>>>that's the nice simplified 7th grade definition, but as i stated,
> >>>>it's
> >>>>not that simple. it's too much based on what's "accepted"- where do
> >>>>you make the leap?
> >>>
> >>>What do you mean? A theory has to able to predict future results
> >>
> >>no, it doesn't. what future results does the big bang theory predict?
> >
> >
> > It predicted cosmic microwave background radiation in 1948, which wasn't
> > experimentally detected until 1965.
> >
> > But you might be misunderstanding how this works. A theory doesn't
> > necessarily have to predict things that haven't been experimentally
> > detected yet.
>
> No, but it sure adds some credibility to it, wouldn't you say?

Yup. Which is one reason why evolutionary theory is considered so well
tested. It predicted quite a lot of things that weren't known at the
time. One huge example is that modern genetics (of which Darwin, of
course, had no knowledge) shows exactly the kind of nested hierarchy
predicted by common descent.

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