The Trapped Scientist - when he opens the door a picture from the Galapagos will appear.
This scientist has a 1 in 8000 chance. It is very unlikely that he will open the door.
| Click on the "let me
try again" button and the scientist will try to open the door. The door will open if
if the random number is less than 30. Because the odds are so poor, even after clicking
the button several thousand times most users will not see the picture. The intent here is
to show that odds like 1 in 8000 will give evolution more trouble than 1 in 8. But given a
few million years with thousands of mutations, chance will open the door and natural
selection will preserve the results. This must happen because some combinations required
for evolution are as short as the one for this door. This is how and why species change
with time becoming more fit and better adapted. Nobody in the intelligent design movement seriously questions the concept that evolution optimizes existing animals - it does. |
What
intelligent design seeks to find out is simply how long are the door's combinations and
can all of these combinations be broken.While science frowns on any attempts to challenge
the naturalistic axiom, the two questions just asked are valid scientific inquiry.
If the combinations become too long then the age of the earth and the size and age of the
universe no longer help. The doors will always remain shut, and evolution will never
open them. Scientific experiments can test this, but unfortunately science just assumes
that evolution can open these doors and then it invokes the naturalistic axiom for
justification. Unlike science, intelligent design does not assume that the doors can
be opened. Thus, intelligent design must test the above assumption. Design is
only inferred if the assumption fails. next: Can Science Test Intelligent Design Theory |