[Osx-nutters] The separation of church and state.

[LuKreme]

On 3-Dec-2007, at 19:18, Chris Gehlker wrote:
> Wikipedia says:
> 'The U.S. National Academy of Sciences has stated that "intelligent
> design, and other claims of supernatural intervention in the origin of
> life" are not science because they cannot be tested by experiment, do
> not generate any predictions, and propose no new hypotheses of their
> own.'
>
> The problem I have with that is that it leaves out astronomy, huge
> swaths of biology, lots of the human sciences and a lot of physics
> since string theory came along.


How do you figure it leaves out any of that stuff?

All of those have predictive aspects and propose many new hypotheses.

Sure, we can't test a theory on the formation of stars, but we can see  
if the model proposed fits what we actually see better than the  
previous model, and when we discover new things (Pulsars, e.g.) do  
they fit the model or where they predicted?

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"Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and  
he's warm for the rest of his life."