Re: ID takes on a lot more than just Evolution

Denis Loubet wrote:
> "Robert J. Kolker" <nowhere@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>info2knowledge@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
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>>>In order to justify Intellegent Design, you've also got to assume that
>>>sciences of Physics, Astronomy, Geology, Biochemistry, and Cosmology
>>>are all majorly flawed.
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>>>How about we dissect just one aspect of this. This is for the ID
>>>advocates out there. Does ID address how old the earth and Universe
>>>are? (6000 years comes to mind, but that might be Creationism)
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>>Regardless of how old the earth (or even the Cosmos) is there is one
>>basic question. At what point did non-living matter become some kind of
>>a living organism and how. Either one believes that the laws of physics
>>allows for this possibility or one does not. It is as simple as that. In
>>the mean time abiogenisis is still a wide open question.
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> Life is just what we call the behavior of certain organized collections of
> atoms. Life on earth is just what certain organized collections of carbon,
> oxygen, and hydrogen do. It's all just atoms and molecules doing what atoms
> and molecules do.
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>
You forgot nitrogen and phosphorus...

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hypothesis in natural science." Tractatus 4.1122

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