Topic: Evolution
Quote: When you say \xe2\x80\x9cto its credit\xe2\x80\x9d, and refer to stepwise feedback, the focus on irreducibly complex structures, reasoning, etc. it inspired me to do a quick search on \xe2\x80\x9cscience branches\xe2\x80\x9d or \xe2\x80\x9cscience lists\xe2\x80\x9d
Response: You would have been better served researching the scientific method directly. A branch of science is any field of study to which the scientific method is applied.\nMy OP critique of the work produced by the ID movement was deliberately philosophy-agnostic. After all, so long as the science done is rigorous, it matters not at all what inspires one to pursue a study in the first place. The religious motivation behind the ID movement is only significant in the larger context.\nWhat they've got right is their deduction that they need to find something that can't have evolved in order to infer design. What they get wrong almost immediately is their belief that irreducible complexity represents an impossibility for evolutionary processes.\n
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