I fully wish to give credit for the seminal thinking on this topic to two of my favorite creationists. One is my elder brother Dr. Gary Parker, who said to me at a joint gig in FL once ... "Evolution hides in the grey areas, in the uncertainties." I also wish to credit, more recently, young creationist Shawn Karon who pointed out to me ... that all evo-"evidences" and evo-"proofs" ... indeed all of evo-thinking altogether! -- is all and only ... firmly has it's basis in -- yep, you guessed it -- Inductive Thinking.
Lemme give you an example.
When you are going on a personal hunch ("hypothesis" or "educated guess") you are thinking inductively. You are going on your instincts and your perceptions of a situation. When you design an experiment to test the hypothesis, you are also using your best instincts. But you still are only guessing and still do not know anything -- you are still being inductive.
When you do the experiment, make observations, collect data, and test your hypothesis ... using the scientific method and good experimental technique ... compiling the data using standard statistical analysis -- now you can say something definitive about your inductive thinking -- you have moved into the deductive realm.
No evo-position has so far gained any solid basis in the deductive ... at all.
No data supports it, nor can support it. Evolution is a fantasy. The scientific method keeps it totally in the realm of the conjecture ... in the realm of the inductive.
God bless. Take care. Keep thinking. DrJ
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