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Empiricism and Intelligent Design II: Analyzing Intelligent Design

Lutz, Sebastian (2011) Empiricism and Intelligent Design II: Analyzing Intelligent Design. [Preprint]

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    Abstract

    If intelligent design (ID) is to compete with evolutionary theory (ET), it must meet the modified falsifiability challenge, that is, make some deductive or probabilistic observational assertions. It must also meet the modified translatability challenge, which it fails if ET makes all the observational assertions of ID, while ID does not make all the observational assertions of ET. I discuss four prominent and surprisingly diverse formulations of ID and show that each either fails one of the two challenges or is analytically false.

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    Item Type: Preprint
    Additional Information: Companion piece to "Empiricism and Intelligent Design I: Three Empiricist Challenges" (http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/8611)
    Keywords: empiricism; intelligent design; empirical significance; empirical content; theism; auxiliary assumptions
    Subjects: Specific Sciences > Biology > Evolutionary Theory
    General Issues > Science vs. Pseudoscience
    General Issues > Structure of Theories
    General Issues > Theory/Observation
    Depositing User: Sebastian Lutz
    Date Deposited: 13 May 2011 07:41
    Last Modified: 13 May 2011 07:41
    Item ID: 8612
    URI: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/8612

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