We live in the age of fortunate coincidences. Science, as a panel of elite evolutionists explain in a recent paper, "rests on the principle that phenomena can be explained only by natural, reproducible, testable forces" and amazingly, it turns out that phenomena really can be explained by natural, reproducible, testable forces.
As the authors explain, evolution is a fact! In other words, the limits that evolutionists place on science worked. That's a fortunate coincidence but the serendipity does not stop there. On the flip side, design theory is not only unscientific but it also is false. As the authors explain, ID is simultaneously "not a scientific theory" and "contradicted by the scientific evidence."
It would be difficult to underestimate the importance of these findings. Philosophers of science have for centuries struggled to define science. It is a broad spectrum of activities that does not easily fit into a neat compartment. The question of whether or not a scientific theory can be true further complicates this problem. That is, if science is narrowly defined then it could exclude true explanations from consideration. If we want science to allow for true explanations, then we need to be careful in defining the limits of science.
There is, of course, much more to this problem of defining science. Suffice it to say that it is a difficult problem. This is why these findings by evolutionists are so important. Not only is their theory a fact, but it is entailed by their definition of science. And false theories are excluded by their definition. They have placed limits on science, and how fortunate it is that those limits have kept us from error and led us to the facts.
