inference to the best explanation

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^{Michael J. Behe
September 1, 2022}

Behe and Ramage: Evolution’s Limits and the Fingerprints of Design

_{Michael J. Behe
September 1, 2022}

President Donald J. Trump, joined by Vice President Mike Pence, listen as Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony S. Fauci takes questions from the press during a coronavirus update briefing Tuesday, March 31, 2020, in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House.

^{Stephen C. Meyer
May 14, 2020
Research & Analysis}

Trump Needs to Recruit a Medical ‘Red Team’ To Challenge Lockdown-Manic Governors

_{Stephen C. Meyer
May 14, 2020
Research & Analysis}

President Trump and 50 governors now face a critical choice. How many more weeks, months, or even years should current sheltering-in-place orders continue? When can or should they be lifted? Read More ›

^{Stephen C. Meyer
May 29, 2019
Intelligent Design}

The Explanatory Power and Heuristic Value of Intelligent Design

_{Stephen C. Meyer
May 29, 2019
Intelligent Design}

The theory of intelligent design has been formulated as the best explanation of several classes of evidence in biology, biochemistry, physics. This talk will show how this method of reasoning has been used to advance intelligent design as a positive explanation for certain classes of physical and biological evidence. Read More ›

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^{Casey Luskin
March 1, 2016
Intelligent Design}

A Slightly Technical Introduction to Intelligent Design

_{Casey Luskin
March 1, 2016
Intelligent Design}

Intelligent design — often called “ID” — is a scientific theory that holds that the emergence of some features of the universe and living things is best explained by an intelligent cause rather than an undirected process such as natural selection. ID theorists argue that design can be inferred by studying the informational properties of natural objects to determine if they bear the type of information that in our experience arises from an intelligent cause. Proponents of neo-Darwinian evolution contend that the information in life arose via purposeless, blind, and unguided processes. ID proponents argue that this information arose via purposeful, intelligently guided processes. Both claims are scientifically testable using the standard methods of science. But ID theorists say that when we use the scientific method to explore nature, the evidence points away from unguided material causes, and reveals intelligent design. Read More ›

^{Stephen C. Meyer
October 1, 2013
Intelligent Design}

CSPAN’s BookTV Interviews Dr. Stephen Meyer on Darwin’s Doubt

_{Stephen C. Meyer
October 1, 2013
Intelligent Design}

In an interview for C-SPAN Book TV with Peter Slen, Dr. Stephen Meyer discusses his New York Times best-selling book Darwin’s Doubt: The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the case for Intelligent Design (HarperOne, 2013). For more information on the book and to order your copy visit http://www.darwinsdoubt.com.

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^{Casey Luskin
September 8, 2008
Intelligent Design}

Intelligent Design (ID) Has Scientific Merit Because it Uses the Scientific Method to Make its Claims and Infers Design by Testing its Positive Predictions

_{Casey Luskin
September 8, 2008
Intelligent Design}

“In all irreducibly complex systems in which the cause of the system is known by experience or observation, intelligent design or engineering played a role [in] the origin of the system.”1 Stephen C. Meyer (Ph.D. Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University) & Scott Minnich (Professor of Microbiology, University of Idaho). Intelligent design (ID) has scientific merit because it uses the scientific Read More ›

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^{Bruce Gordon
February 5, 2008
Intelligent Design}

The Scientific Status of Design Inferences

_{Bruce Gordon
February 5, 2008
Intelligent Design}

Scientific practice assumes that the universe, in both its origin and function, is a closed system of undirected physical processes. While many scientists reject this assumption as the ultimate truth, they still think that it is essential for science to function as if it were true. This means that they have accepted methodological naturalism as a necessary constraint on their practice as scientists. Methodological naturalism is the doctrine that in order to be scientific, an explanation must be naturalistic, that is, it must only appeal to entities, causes, events, and processes contained within the material universe. Even if we grant that this restriction on permissible explanations has been a fruitful strategy for science, we must still ask whether it is methodologically required by science. Read More ›

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^{Stephen C. Meyer
April 1, 2000
Intelligent Design}

DNA and Other Designs

_{Stephen C. Meyer
April 1, 2000
Intelligent Design}

For two millennia, the design argument provided an intellectual foundation for much of Western thought. From classical antiquity through the rise of modern science, leading philosophers, theologians, and scientists — from Plato to Aquinas to Newton — maintained that nature manifests the design of a preexistent mind or intelligence. Moreover, for many Western thinkers, the idea that the physical universe Read More ›

^{Stephen C. Meyer
January 1, 2000
Intelligent Design}

The Demarcation of Science and Religion

_{Stephen C. Meyer
January 1, 2000
Intelligent Design}

What is science? What is religion? How do the two intersect? Historians of science address these questions by analyzing how the scientific and religious beliefs of particular scientists or cultures have interacted at specific times. Philosophers of science and religion, however, have sought to characterize the relationship between them in more general terms. Their endeavor has required defining science and religion in order to distinguish or "demarcate" them from each other by clear and objective criteria. During modern times, theologians and philosophers of science have attempted to make categorical demarcations between science and religion on various definitional grounds. Read More ›

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^{David Berlinski
June 1, 1994
Intelligent Design}

The End of Materialist Science

_{David Berlinski
June 1, 1994
Intelligent Design}

Simply the thing you are shall make you live. Old Spanish Proverb For the moment, we are all waiting for the gate of time to open. The heroic era of scientific exploration appears at an end, the large aching questions settled. An official ideology is everywhere in evidence and everywhere resisted. From the place where space and time are curved Read More ›