International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 61 (2):69 - 81 (2007)
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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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| Keywords | Intelligent design Design arguments Teleological arguments |
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| Reprint years | 2011 |
| DOI | 10.1007/s11153-007-9112-2 |
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