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The above statement is utterly false. Randomness is testable within limits. If a series of events continues unpredictably, such that its distribution curve cannot be estimated, then the events are random. Ultimately there might still be a pattern, just as their may be a pattern to the decimal...

Science does not require proof of any underlying, unprovable assumptions. If it did, no science could possibly exist, because ultimately, existence must be assumed. Science merely requires proof of the stated hypothesis. That's what you're misunderstanding. So, if the hypothesis is that...

Naaah...God changed the lizards so they could survive, silly man! It's obvious. This change has the Creator's mark written all over it. I'm sure you'll find it, right there in the research report. It will say something like: "We set up a time-lapse camera to watch the lizard population, and...

Your statement about what a hypothesis is, is flat wrong: -------------- n. pl. hy·poth·e·ses (-sz) A tentative explanation for an observation, phenomenon, or scientific problem that can be tested by further investigation. Something taken to be true for the purpose of argument or...

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Everything is founded an a prior assumption. If you believe in God, then everything must be filtered through the sieve of God's prior intent. If you don't believe in God, then everything must be filtered by the non-existence of any prior intent. If you're agnostic, then you just read the...

Answers within... Discussion still seems silly to me. No way to prove or disprove intelligent design.

Employ a little logic...ok. As far as we observe, there is only one universe. This universe has a cosmological constant. The cosmological constant appears condusive to human life. A small change in the cosmological constant appears to disfavor human life. Q: What is the...

1. Break Iraq into three nations, Sunni, Shiite and Kurd. 2. Let each group control their own region. Anyone who owns property in a territory where their lives will be clearly at stake if they remain outside of U.S. control should be justly compensated for their losses should they choose to...

Yes, there is an order in the universe, and I can prove it: "I'll have pastrami on toasted rye, with deli mustard, swiss and lettuce -- and, a cream soda!" There, now wasn't that easy?

Males are instinctively predisposed to defend and assume territory. For humans, this extends to the territory of mind, because intellectual property is valuable and attractive to females because it identifies superior reproductive traits. Belief in religion is important territory as it...

You all seem to have awoken on the wrong side of the hen house.

How do you measure "flawedness" so as to draw your conclusion?

Indubitably. The question is "fowl."

Regardless, at one point in the past, the last change in an allele of the genetics of the modern chicken occurred, from some creature that may have looked indistinguishable from a modern chicken, but was not. That creature, may have even laid eggs, and the allele change may have even occurred...

Irrelevant.

Where did I write that scientific belief is infallible? And who is this "we" to which you refer? Are you a room full of Zs and zs, all watching the screen simultaneously? Or, perhaps one physical Z with many disassociated identities? I don't "believe" that science is infallible. Come to...

Perhaps, I should have characterized my answer differently. Based upon well established principles of scientific inference, there are dozens of examples of geographic isolation leading to speciation. From these examples, the scenario that the chicken preceded the egg is easily inferred...

Don't think it matters. The issue likely would depend on whether the group is outspoken in their advocating violence, even if that speech is conducted only within the groups holy places. Obviously, random behavior is random, and not grounds for governmental discrimination of a group. But, if...

The government can provide for dissimilar treatment of a religious group, if it can show a compelling interest and use of the least restrictive alternative means. So, if there were a pattern of violence committed by a particular religious sect in the U.S., then the government would be able...