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The claim that it is a "fact" that all living things evolved from a common ancestor is really just a way to protect Darwinism from critical analysis. Most Darwinists use equivocation, that is changing the meaning of a term in the middle of an argument. The many meanings of the words evolution, theory, science, and fact are exploited by them to distract their critics. Darwinists have been unable to refute intelligent design with evidence because it is unfalsifiable, so they rely on a self-serving definition of science that excludes it from serious consideration. Intelligent design is as scientific as Darwinism unless "science" is arbitrarily defined to permit only natural explanations.
Intelligent design is not scientific, so it can't be published in peer-reviewed scientific journals. How do we know it's not scientific? Because it isn't published in peer-reviewed scientific journals. Catch-22!
"The phrase 'the fossil record' sounds impressive and authoritative. As used by some persons, as intended, intimidating, taking on the aura of esoteric truth as expounded by an elite class of specialists. But what is it, really, this fossil record? Only data in search of interpretation. All claims to the contrary that I know, and I know several, are so much superstition." - Fossil expert Gareth Nelson 1978
"No fossil is buried with its birth certificate. That, and the scarcity of fossils, means that it is effectively impossible to link fossils into chains of cause and effect in any valid way whether we are talking about the extinction of the dinosaurs, or chains of ancestry and descent. To take a line of fossils and claim that they represent a lineage is not a scientific hypothesis that can be tested, but an assertion that carries the same validity as a bedtime story - amusing, perhaps even instructive, but not scientific." - Evolutionary biologist Henry Gee 1999
"Throughout 150 years of the science of bacteriology, there is no evidence that one species of bacteria has changed into another... Since there is no evidence for species changes between the simplest forms of unicellular life, it is not surprising that there's no evidence for evolution... throughout the whole array of higher multicellular organisms." - Bacteriologist Alan H. Linton 2001
"Darwinism by itself did not produce the Holocaust, but without it neither Adolf Hitler nor his Nazi followers would have had the necessary "scientific" underpinnings to convince themselves and their collaborators that one of the world's greatest atrocities was really morally praiseworthy." - Historian Richard Weikart
