Research Program

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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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Jonathan Wells
May 10, 2004
Intelligent Design

Using Intelligent Design Theory to Guide Scientific Research

Jonathan Wells
May 10, 2004
Intelligent Design
Intelligent Design theory (ID) can contribute to science on at least two levels. On one level, ID is concerned with inferring from the evidence whether a given feature of the world is designed. This is the level on which William Dembski's explanatory filter and Michael Behe's concept of irreducible complexity operate. On another level, ID could function as a "metatheory," providing a conceptual framework for scientific research. By suggesting testable hypotheses about features of the world that have been systematically neglected by older metatheories (such as Darwin's), and by leading to the discovery of new features, ID could indirectly demonstrate its scientific fruitfulness. Read More ›
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Stephen C. Meyer
September 10, 2003
Intelligent Design

Laws, Causes and Facts

Stephen C. Meyer
September 10, 2003
Intelligent Design

A response to “Darwinism: Philosophical Preference, Scientific Inference, and Good Research Strategy” by Michael Ruse, Darwinism: Science or Philosophy, Chapter 2, Proceeding of symposium entitled Darwinism: Scientific Inference or Philosophical Preference (March 26-28, 1992). I appreciate very much the opportunity to respond to Professor Ruse. Though it is in the nature of a response to disagree, I must say that Read More ›

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Organic Farming
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William A. Dembski
August 10, 2001
Intelligent Design

ID as a Theory of Technological Evolution

William A. Dembski
August 10, 2001
Intelligent Design

1. Nature and Art In Book II of the Physics Aristotle remarks, “”If the ship-building art were in the wood, it would produce the same results by nature.”” Aristotle is here contrasting nature and art. Nature provides the raw materials (here wood); art provides the means for fashioning those materials (here into a ship). For Aristotle, art consists in the Read More ›