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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Type de support: | Électronique Article |
Langue: | Anglais |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V
2007
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International journal for philosophy of religion
Année: 2007, Volume: 61, Numéro: 2, Pages: 69-81 |
Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Dessein intelligent
B Teleological arguments B Design Arguments |
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Résumé: | 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 |
Contient: | Enthalten in: International journal for philosophy of religion
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s11153-007-9112-2 |