Intelligent design
Intelligent design
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A lecturer once told me that people often conflate the words "theory" and "hypothesis", which creates confusion, especially in relation to arguments concerning evolution and creationism. It was explained to me that a theory generates hypotheses that can be tested and that Popper's criterion of falsifiability applies to the hypotheses and not the theory. A theory that is unable to generate falsifiable hypotheses is not a scientific theory. According to this logic, when one has God's intervention as the only hypothesis to a theory (intelligent design), then it is not a scientific theory because its hypotheses are not falsifiable or testable.