Re: it's obvious where the ID movement wants to take it 2/2 (was ID vs. ?)

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In a message dated 9/17/2000 8:46:04 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
billwald@juno.com writes:

<< FJ>But in the
>case of ID there are more problems than this, ID fails to show that
natural
>designers can be excluded.

It is the general nature of things that nothing can be excluded - the
problem of proving negatives.
>>

That is especially relevant if you argument relies on elimination of the
other options as is the case with ID.

<< All three proposals can be simultaneously correct. Some of the life
existing on earth at this time could have been planted by God, some could
have been planted by space aliens, and some could have sprung from
non-life.
>>

Indeed.

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