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Originally Posted by TS_aficionado
"Are there other varieties of these things that suggests some kind of heritage? Yes, there are a wide range of other life forms and fossil records ranging from apes to amoebas that suggest a heritage of traits. Ranging from simple life forms 3.8 billion years ago to complex life forms seen now."
That suggestion is merely a something some Earthlings believe (a theory). It is not a fact.
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Of course it's a theory, as is everything in science. It's not just a hypothesis. It's a theory that is backed up by observational evidence and used to predict results that experiments have confirmed. Calling something a theory does not mean it's BS. We have a theory of the atom. From that theory we have all the marvels of modern life.
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Originally Posted by TS_aficionado
"Do they demonstrate any means of reproduction which evolution would require? "
But reproduction does not go against intelligent design. The designer created this mechanism to allow the different species to continue existing.
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By itself it is not proof of evolution. But it is required for evolution. If this computer on Jupiter does not reproduce, we can immediately rule out evolution.
An Intelligent Design theory invalidates itself. It makes the assumption that complex entities cannot exist without being designed. A designer would have to be much more complex than what he has allegedly designed, and would therefore require an even more complex designer.... and so on. Until this paradox is addressed, the intelligent design hypothesis falls flat on its face.
And yes, Intelligent Design is only a hypothesis. It does not even reach a status that you ridicule, which is a theory. To advance beyond a hypothesis, intelligent design needs to make a prediction. Then an experiment would have to be designed to test the prediction. This has not been done. After the experiment confirms the prediction, the hypothesis will remain as is, or may need to be tweaked based on observations. This process is repeated over and over again until the hypothesis can reliably predict outcomes and explain observations. Intelligent design has done none of this. Evolution has.