It is amusing that this thread would be labeled in a sarcastic swipe "and pigs will fly." In fact the inverse sense demanded by the sarcasm, "and pigs will NEVER fly," is quite along the lines of the creationist idea of "stasis of kinds" promoted in the Bible. A thinking evolutionist would never say "and pigs will never fly" because for the evolutionist anything is possible (even if time is not on your side to do it stochastically). Why won't pigs eventually evolve the ability to fly, oh ye evolutionists of little faith?
In the meantime, please pardon us theists if we also happen to agree that pigs will never fly. We know, flying AH, that configuring a good FM is not easy, even with dedicated intelligent designers. And in the real world we have fish that fly, all kinds of insects that fly, all kinds of birds that fly, some mammals that fly, gliding lizards, and have even got bones of dinosaurs that fly (some with greater wingspan than many planes). Random, materialistic "Evolution" just threw boxcars in all these major phyla to give them an extraordinary locomotive capability - flight. OOookay!
The theory behind ID has value in science as a forensic tool, among others. If an array of items can be shown formally to have arisen by design vs stochastically, or stochastically vs by design, then that obviously is of value in many ways in many different areas of research, including the cracking of codes. The theorists of ID mathematically formalize probabilities and thresholds of stochastically arranged items verses by design.
Growing up a committed naturalist, I for one would have appreciated finding out in my science courses that such a leading evolutionist as the co-discoverer of the helical structure of DNA, Francis Crick, considered the conditions of early earth hostile to an abiogenic formation of life, and as a result promoted the idea of directed panspermia by intelligent beings using interstellar rockets.
directed panspermiaBest Regards
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