Dragon
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Irreducible complexity is just one.
No, it's not. What you're demonstrating here is that you don't understand what Si Modo means by "falsifiable." Let me see if I can explain it.
For a theory to be falsifiable means that you can pose a test of it that, so that, if you do X and you observe Y, then the theory is proven to be false. For example, the theory of evolution predicts that if a group of living things is exposed to a factor that increases their mortality, natural selection will cause their descendents to evolve ways of dealing with that factor. If we find living things exposed to such a factor that do not evolve in this way, we will have disproved the theory of evolution, or at least a very important component of it.
So what you need to do is to propose a similar test for ID. Tell us what we can do, what experiment we can perform or what observations we can make, such that if they come out a certain way, then we can know that intelligent design is FALSE.
That's what falsifiability is. In response, you presented one of the arguments in favor of ID, and that in no way answered Si Modo's challenge. Don't give us arguments supporting ID. Tell us how we can prove that it is false. If you can do that, then the theory becomes falsifiable and therefore can be considered a scientific theory.