Re: topmind: ID is potentially testable

topmind wrote:
Anyhow, artificts left in DNA by intelligent beings is testable.

Not in the absence of predictions from a scientific hypothesis they
aren't.

As for DNA-ID, there seems to be no scientific research program,
methodologically rigorous or otherwise, unless you count the tests
done in this thread and genome research done for other purposes.

Again, I am currently addressing "testable" at this point, not
"tested".

You haven't even begun to address "testable." If you want "DNA-ID" to
be testable, let alone scientific, you need to clearly and precisely
answer some core questions, including:

What empirical observations lead to your hypothesis?
What is your hypothesis?
How does your hypothesis derive from the empirical
observations?
What predictions can be made based on your hypothesis?
How can those predictions be tested?
How would a negative result of those tests falsify your
hypothesis?

Unless and until you answer these questions, with enough precision to
allow others to understand your reasoning and reproduce your
experiments, your speculations remain untestable.

BJ

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