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Claim CH001:

Creationism is explanatory. It can accommodate all the results of evolution and more. In particular, it can also explain the results of a designer.

Source:

Dembski, William A., 2001. Is intelligent design testable? http://www.arn.org/docs/dembski/wd_isidtestable.htm

Response:

  1. Accommodation is very different from explanation. An explanation tells why something is one way and not another. A theory that accommodates anything explains nothing, because it does not rule out any possibilities. Accommodating all possibilities also makes a theory exactly useless. Since creationism accommodates all possibilities, it is not explanatory.
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