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Intelligent Design

Intelligent Design. Clear, direct links to creationist movement of 1980’s (same people, same books re-edited) Natural theology: William Paley, 1802, watchmaker analogy. ID. ID is not science

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Intelligent Design

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  1. Intelligent Design • Clear, direct links to creationist movement of 1980’s (same people, same books re-edited) • Natural theology: William Paley, 1802, watchmaker analogy

  2. ID • ID is not science • Intelligent design might base its ideas on observations in the natural world, but it does not test them in the natural world, or attempt to develop mechanisms (such as natural selection) to explain their observations. • What is the intelligent designer? • http://www.ucsusa.org/scientific_integrity/what_you_can_do/why-intelligent-design-is-not.html

  3. Science • Scientists seek their explanations in what can be observed, tested, and replicated by others. • Ken Miller: “If you don’t have these rules, you don’t have science. If you invoke a nonnatural cause—a spirit force or something like that—in your research and I decide to test it, I have no way to test it. I can’t order it from a biological supply house. I can’t grow it in my laboratory.”

  4. Science does not deny or confirm the presence of the supernatural. • Science does ignore supernatural causes as lines of inquiry. • ID seeks to find “evidence” of the supernatural in nature.

  5. Science progresses because it ignores supernatural causes • Strange behavior • (demonic possession or illness?) • Disease • (supernatural cause or germ?) • Crop success/fertility • (supernatural cause or physical variables?)

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