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Until creationists accept that their claims must be falsifiable and show how they could be falsified, creationism cannot be said to be a scientific theory.

— Mordechai Ben-Ari Just a Theory: Exploring the Nature of Science (2005)

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Intelligent Design is simply a dead end; it does not deserve to be called a theory.

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Modern science explicitly and emphatically rejects teleology.

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Just because people doing science are embedded in a particular social and cultural milieu, it doesn’t follow that science is not universal.

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Unfortunately, the universe does not come with an instructor’s manual and technical support is as hard to get as it is for some software packages.

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To brand evolution as “just a theory” is the finest compliment one can confer on it!

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