ilion said:
"Mung: “But wouldn’t that entail that Darwinism is necessarily a metaphysical argument?”
Only for the past 150 or so years.
“God wouldn’t have done it that way” and “A tidy-minded Designer wouldn’t have done it that way” are not scientific statements or arguments."
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In that case, "God did it that way", and "The designer did it that way", are not scientific statements or arguments either.
What goes around, comes around.