Nature, design, and science : the status of design in natural science /
Ratzsch, Delvin Lee, 1945-
Nature, design, and science : the status of design in natural science / Del Ratzsch. - Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2001. - 1 online resource (x, 220 pages) - SUNY series in philosophy and biology . - SUNY series in philosophy and biology. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-215) and index.
I. Design basics -- Design preliminaries -- Science and finite design -- II. Supernatural design -- Supernatural design: preliminary basics -- Identifying supernatural design: primary marks -- Identifying supernatural design: secondary marks -- Design in nature -- III. Boundaries of scientific legitimacy -- Beyond the empirical -- The legitimacy criterion -- IV. The permissibility question -- Cases for impermissibility -- Legitimacy -- Are there any payoffs? -- Conclusion.
"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."--Jacket
English.
0791448932 9780791448939 0791448940 9780791448946 0791490998 9780791490990
00049647
Religion and science.
God--Proof, Teleological.
Religion and Science
BL240.2 / .R335 2001eb
ARCH YNDC 215 R238N
Nature, design, and science : the status of design in natural science / Del Ratzsch. - Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2001. - 1 online resource (x, 220 pages) - SUNY series in philosophy and biology . - SUNY series in philosophy and biology. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-215) and index.
I. Design basics -- Design preliminaries -- Science and finite design -- II. Supernatural design -- Supernatural design: preliminary basics -- Identifying supernatural design: primary marks -- Identifying supernatural design: secondary marks -- Design in nature -- III. Boundaries of scientific legitimacy -- Beyond the empirical -- The legitimacy criterion -- IV. The permissibility question -- Cases for impermissibility -- Legitimacy -- Are there any payoffs? -- Conclusion.
"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."--Jacket
English.
0791448932 9780791448939 0791448940 9780791448946 0791490998 9780791490990
00049647
Religion and science.
God--Proof, Teleological.
Religion and Science
BL240.2 / .R335 2001eb
ARCH YNDC 215 R238N