>I think the confusion stems from the last sentence: "In fact, it rather
>_supports the idea_". Only if NOT(traditional evolution) = ID. I
>agree that life on Mars (or Pluto, for that matter) can't harm the
>concept of ID (I'm not sure much could),
I have often considered what the ID model is able to tell us and have come
to believe that it has too much explanatory power and is not very useful as
a scienctific model. I can think of no scientific hypothesis that would
arise from the model. It seems to function better as a metaphysical
understanding and, thus, to operate at a different level than the scientific
model of evolution.
Steve
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