What is wrong with intelligent design?
While a great deal of abuse has been directed at intelligent design theory (ID), its starting point is a fact about biological organisms that cries out for explanation, namely “specified complexity” (SC). Advocates of ID deploy three kind of argument from specified complexity to the existence of a d...
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V
2007
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International journal for philosophy of religion
Jahr: 2007, Band: 61, Heft: 2, Seiten: 69-81 |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Teleological arguments
B Design Arguments B Intelligent Design |
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| Zusammenfassung: | While a great deal of abuse has been directed at intelligent design theory (ID), its starting point is a fact about biological organisms that cries out for explanation, namely “specified complexity” (SC). Advocates of ID deploy three kind of argument from specified complexity to the existence of a designer: an eliminative argument, an inductive argument, and an inference to the best explanation. Only the first of these merits the abuse directed at it; the other two arguments are worthy of respect. If they fail, it is only because we have a better explanation of SC, namely Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection. |
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| ISSN: | 1572-8684 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: International journal for philosophy of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s11153-007-9112-2 |