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Eight questions for Intelligent Design believers 1. How can Intelligent Design be falsified ? An unfalsifiable belief is not scientific. 2. Please give a few accepted scientific laws or principles on which Intelligent Design is based. A belief that does not build on established knowledge is not scientific. 3. Please name an Intelligent Design-supporting study published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal. 4. Who is (or are) the Designer ? How can we observe this Designer ? 5. Is such a Designer complex ? If so, who or what designed the Designer ? 6. How does Intelligent Design explain suboptimal, bad or evil design in nature, including but not limited to : * Predation; * Sea mammals that cannot breathe underwater; * The blind spot in the human eye; * Wisdom teeth. 7. How does Intelligent Design explain vestigial organs, including but not limited to : * The appendix; * The leg bones in whales; * The wings of flightless birds; * Tails in human embryos. 8. Please define how you measure "complexity" or "information" (depending on your flavour of Intelligent Design). Give us a numerical measure of complexity or information for simple organisms, such as a bacteria of your choice. |