TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ratzsch,Delvin Lee
TI  - Nature, design, and science: the status of design in natural science 
T2  - SUNY series in philosophy and biology
SN  - 0791448932
AV  - BL240.2 .R335 2001eb
U1  - ARCH YNDC 215 R238N  21
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Albany
PB  - State University of New York Press
KW  - Religion and science
KW  - God
KW  - Proof, Teleological
KW  - Religion and Science
N1  - 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
N2  - "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
ER  -