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misterd on 23 April 2008
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ID proponents miss the most fundamental requirement of a good theory - it must make testable predictions (hypotheses). That is what made Darwin's theory so popular - it gave scientists, both pro-and anti-evolution, plenty of avenues of investigation.

Prediction by naturalistic evolution: There will be transitional fossils
Prediction by ID or creationism: There will not be tranisitional fossils. Or there will, if God wants there to be.
Test shows: Transitional fossils for every major group of organisms

Prediction by naturalistic evolution: If amphibians evolved from fish, there will be transitional fossils found in rocks between 300m-270m years old (based on the ages of the oldest amphibian fossils)
Prediction by ID or creationism: Such fossils, if they exist, could appear whenever and wherever God wanted them to.
Test shows: Transitional fossis found in rocks 280-285myo.

Prediction by naturalistic evolution: If Beetle A and Beetle B appear related, you should find a linking species (Beetle C) in an area between them
Prediction by ID or creationism: Beetle C will be where God puts it - if He even wants it to exist.
Test shows: Beetle C found between A and B.

Prediction by natural selection: Cleaning water supply should result in less harmful cholera bacteria.
Prediction by ID or creationism: Cholera is as virulent as God wishes
Test shows: Cleaning water supply dramatically reduces cholera virulence

Do you see the problem here? There is NO WAY to effectively test any God-centered explanation. It results in no research (as there is none going on in the so-called Discovery Institute). It solves no problems. It proposes no real answers.

Naturalistic evolution, on the other hand, is a robust field of research, constantly being tested and DEBATED by scientists doing real science all over the world, every day. And best of all, the whole thing can be falsified if just ONE creationist could find a 300 million year old bunny fossil.

Now, once you give me a test to falsify God's works, I will be willing to put naturalistic evolution and ID/creationism on equal footing.