Explores the question of whether or not concepts and principles involving supernatural intelligent design can occupy any legitimate place within science.
Although the scientific illegitimacy of supernatural design is typically asserted with enormous confidence and vigor, there has been surprisingly little actual work on such key foundational issues as even what design is and on specific criteria for assessing its legitimacy, or lack, as a scientific concept. However, intelligent supernatural design is again surfacing in discussions both of anthropic principles and of certain types of biological complexity. This book develops a definition of design, explicates the more specific concept of supernatural design, defends a general criterion for scientific legitimacy, and argues that in some cases the concept of intelligent supernatural design can meet the relevant requirements for scientific legitimacy.
| ISBN: | 9780791448939 |
| Publication date: | 1st March 2001 |
| Author: | Delvin Lee Ratzsch |
| Publisher: | SUNY Press an imprint of State University of New York Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 220 pages |
| Series: | SUNY Series in Philosophy and Biology |
| Genres: |
Philosophy of religion |
Explores the question of whether or not concepts and principles involving supernatural intelligent design can occupy any legitimate place within science.
Although the scientific illegitimacy of supernatural design is typically asserted with enormous confidence and vigor, there has been surprisingly little actual work on such key foundational issues as even what design is and on specific criteria for assessing its legitimacy, or lack, as a scientific concept. However, intelligent supernatural design is again surfacing in discussions both of anthropic principles and of certain types of biological complexity. This book develops a definition of design, explicates the more specific concept of supernatural design, defends a general criterion for scientific legitimacy, and argues that in some cases the concept of intelligent supernatural design can meet the relevant requirements for scientific legitimacy.
Nature, Design, and Science features in the following genres: Philosophy of religion
Nature, Design, and Science is available in Hardback
Nature, Design, and Science was written by Delvin Lee Ratzsch and published by SUNY Press an imprint of State University of New York Press
Nature, Design, and Science has 220 pages
Yes it is part of SUNY Series in Philosophy and Biology series