Comments on: Intelligent Design and falsifiability

by: Avinash

Wed, 16 Nov 2005 09:13:52 +0000

If something cannot be disproved because it cannot be proved how does one go about disproving it? Hmm.

by: Ck

Sat, 12 Nov 2005 21:21:11 +0000

Sachin my post was not meant to impy that Libertarians believe in ID but that Libertarianism as a belief does not pass the falisfiability test. This is a long standing bone of contention between Yazad and me.

by: Sachin Nair

Sat, 12 Nov 2005 19:35:14 +0000

Libertarianism by itself rejects the entire idea about Intelligent Design. One of the basic contentions of libertarian thought is that any being(pardon me for removing ‘human’) would perform any activity out of some selfish motive except in exceptional cases.

ID simply assumes that a being or entity exists but does not elaborate on the need for such activity!

As such the theory stays automatically rejected!

by: Ashish Hanwadikar

Fri, 11 Nov 2005 17:39:44 +0000

Darwinism, anyone? I don't like ID either, but the the concept of falisfiability is not so rock-solid concept as it is made out to be. David Stove is a good read on the subject as it takes on Karl Popper. Also, this kind of scientific McCarthyisms that is practised is bothersome.

by: Ck

Thu, 10 Nov 2005 19:31:45 +0000

He he…

It is sometimes complained that IDers resemble the Libertarians who always found a way to modify and reframe their theory so it evades any possible falsification, never offering an experimental procedure by which Libertarinism could in principle be falsified. To my mind, this complaint is warranted indeed. But the primary problem is not with the intellectual honesty of Libertarians, but with the nature of their theory. The theory simply cannot be fashioned to make any potentially falsified predictions.

by: Roshan

Thu, 10 Nov 2005 18:28:16 +0000

This is interesting: Vatican rejects Intelligent Design.