A major criticism is that Intelligent Design is not falsifiable. However, Intelligent Design is falsifiable by demonstrating that its central claims are false.
The theory of intelligent design says that certain features of biology and the universe are best explained by intelligent activity.
Intelligent design says that these features can NOT be produced by unintelligent activity. All you have to do to falsify intelligent design is to demonstrate that these features CAN be produced by intelligent activity. Below is an example:
CLAIM: Currently, information processing systems are only known to be the product of intelligent activity.
FALSIFICATION: Demonstrate that unintelligent processes can produce information processing systems.
Don't confuse the point: The question is not whether intelligent design has been falsified, it is whether it can, in principle, be falsified at all.
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