[derrida]

Preechr, why assume that the Neo-darwinian model is going to be as simple an explanation as "this shit was put here by an agent" (which, I guess isn't even unique to ID as evidenced by the tendency of evolutionary models to personify genes) (and why assume that either has any bearing whatsoever on normative truths?)

Yeah, the fact that only a very small number of the organisms in history ever became fossils fucks with the hope that any deductive truths confirming the abiotic generation of life on this particular planet are ever going to be found. Furthermore, the scale of time we are talking about completely motherfucking dwarfs any frame of reference most normal folk have ever needed to use. Irreducibility is an intuition for which no formal proof has been derived, not even by it's proponent Dembski, a mathematician. Is there not a calculable possibility that an amoeba might undergo a mutation that leaves it's DNA indistinguishable from that of your own? Genetics says so.

The thing about inductive arguments is that, while essentially probabilistic, they can be evaluated and classed as "strong" or "weak."