[Ugur]

I've been spending too much time in discussions recently. To focus on my studies I am leaving Islamica again.

Will the sisters and brothers who believe in the evolution of man from primitive hominids heed the warning from Sheikh Nuh Ha Mim Keller? No matter what they do, I have done my best to lead them to think more open-mindedly. I hope that they will see that the philosophy of falsificationism that Karl Popper postulated and that the evolutionist establishment embraced is not a definite rule of science as they believe. It's a philosophy, plain and simple. It is dishonest to force people to accept this philosophy as if it is a God-given scientific truth.

The notion that Intelligent Design theory is fundamentally "unscientific" is based on the philosophy originated by Karl Popper (1902-1994), who postulated a set of rules for science known as "Falsificationism." The main idea is that a hypothesis or theory does not qualify as "scientific" unless it is "falsifiable" (which is independent of whether it is actually "true" or "false"). Popper is revered by evolutionists, but certainly even they would agree that we should not blindly accept his word as revealed truth.

When it is made clear that this definition of science is just a philosophy, what remains to do is to watch the debate about intelligent design and evolutionism with an open mind.