Intelligent Design is a scientific dead end (Collins)

July 20th, 2007  |  Published in Biology, Evolution, Quotes, Religion, Science  |  2 Comments

Intelligent Design’s proposal of the intervention of supernatural forces to account for complex multi-component biological entities is a scientific dead end. Outside of the development of a time machine, verification of the ID theory seems profoundly unlikely.

–Francis S. Collins, The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief (2006), p. 187

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  1. holmegm says:

    July 21st, 2007 at 9:42 am (#)

    Outside of the development of a time machine, verification of the ID theory seems profoundly unlikely.

    As does “verification” of single common ancestry.

  2. holmegm says:

    July 21st, 2007 at 10:20 am (#)

    Meaning one would need a time machine for that too, wouldn’t one?

    We don’t even have a spare planet and a few billion years to “verify” that it *could* happen, much less any way to verify that it *did* happen.

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