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J. P. Moreland on when it is right to reject “science”

For example, “The presence of a band of highly trained, academically qualified scholars with a good track record for publishing in top journals or with highly regarded book publishers, and who are unified in rejecting the view held by even a vast majority of the relevant experts. “

EDTA Sev, >Owls can also see way better in the dark than we can. How come The Designer gave them better... – Airplane wing design: Design in nature...
EDTA WJM, >Imagine “nothing.” What is it? Blackness? Whiteness? A space absent of color and objects? All those are still things.... – Remember how endless cycles of universe...
Belfast @Seversky “ In other words, no one has any idea why we weren’t designed with better eyes as well as... – Airplane wing design: Design in nature...
bornagain77 CD, Penrose ignores his present high level critics as well as ignoring the Borde-Guth-Vilenkin theorem Penrose and His Critics Yet... – Why Roger Penrose’s cosmological theory doesn’t...
PaV Dogdoc: So here again, there is absolutely no possible observation that is excluded by ID – per the reasoning in... – Is Darwinism an "Empty Theory"?
jerry Far be it from me to defend ID as a valid scientific theory You are playing games. I didn’t ask... – Is Darwinism an "Empty Theory"?
PaV DogDoc@21: [ . . . ]my point was just that there is nothing in ID Theory that excludes the possibility... – Is Darwinism an "Empty Theory"?
jerry other words, no one has any idea why we weren’t designed with better eyes as well as better brains As... – Airplane wing design: Design in nature...
chuckdarwin Penrose won the Nobel Prize just a few months ago. So, I wouldn’t be quite so dismissive. He’s not the... – Why Roger Penrose’s cosmological theory doesn’t...
dogdoc Nonlin, Actually you can’t. Unsupported disagreements are not science. You’re confusing science with democracy. Perhaps this explains your reference to... – Is Darwinism an "Empty Theory"?
Nonlin.org @69 Actually you can't. Unsupported disagreements are not science. You're confusing science with democracy. Perhaps this explains your reference to... – Is Darwinism an "Empty Theory"?
bornagain77 Sev: "Owls can also see way better in the dark than we can. How come The Designer gave them better... – Airplane wing design: Design in nature...
dogdoc Jerry, ID is not a theory. If anyone believes it is a theory, then describe the theory. Far be it... – Is Darwinism an "Empty Theory"?
Origenes WJM @ Under MRT, what is an individual? I take it that the individual is not one thing on its... – Why (some) physicists think a multiverse...
Nonlin.org @65 You can't just "disagree" in science. And in fact you're "not even wrong" as you're not replying to my... – Is Darwinism an "Empty Theory"?
Lieutenant Commander Data If one could show randomness capable of creating the patterns we get from ID, that would falsify ID. Both theists... – Is Darwinism an "Empty Theory"?
Lieutenant Commander Data An atheist shouldn't talk about logic and mathematics because both are used to create codes(like DNA) so both exist before... – Remember how endless cycles of universe...
Seversky In other words, no one has any idea why we weren't designed with better eyes as well as better brains – Airplane wing design: Design in nature...
jerry suppose I was under the impression that Intelligent Design Theory was a theory, because, you know, the name I repeat... – Is Darwinism an "Empty Theory"?
Belfast @Zweston. I can’t fathom Pearlman either. I think his reference is to the Young Earth model. But if that is... – Why Roger Penrose’s cosmological theory doesn’t...
jerry I don’t see the problem with giving us better eyes as well as better brains One of the more stupider... – Airplane wing design: Design in nature...