Intelligent Design is falsifiable, stupid - Evolution Isn't!

Michael Behe: "ID is very open to falsification. I claim, for example, that the bacterial flagellum could not be produced by natural selection. It needed to be deliberately intelligently designed. Well, all the scientist has to do to prove me wrong is to take a bacterium without a flagellum, or knock out the genes of the flagellum in a bacterium, go into his lab, and grow that bug for a long time, and see if it produces anything resembling a flagellum. If that happens, ID, as I understand it, would be knocked out of the water. Now, I don't certainly expect it to happen, but it's easily falsified by a series of such experiments."

"Now, let's turn that around and ask how do we falsify the contention that natural selection produced the bacterial flagellum. If that same scientist went into the lab and knocked out the bacterial flagellum genes and grew it through the bacterium for a long time, and nothing much happened, "Well", he can say, "Maybe we didn't start with the right bacterium. Maybe we didn't wait long enough. Maybe we need a bigger population." And it would be very much difficult to falsify the Darwinian hypothesis. I think the very opposite is true. I think ID is easily testable, easily flasifiable, although it has not been falsified, and Darwinism is very resistant to being falsified. They can always claim something was not right."

Quote comes from this DVD: http://www.amazon.com/Case-Creator-Lee-Strobel/dp/B000ION2HG

Could the flagellum have evolved?:
http://intelligentdesign.podomatic.com/entry/eg/2008-08-22T13_26_22-07_00

More on Intelligent Design and falsification:
http://www.arn.org/docs/behe/mb_philosophicalobjectionsresponse.htm
http://www.arn.org/docs/dembski/wd_isidtestable.htm
http://www.idthefuture.com/2007/08/what_is_falsifiability_and_can.html

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