Nature, Design, and Science
Subtitle: The Status of Design in Natural Science (Suny Series in Philosophy and Biology)
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: April 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780791448946
Subjects: Philosophy; Proof, Teleological; Metaphysics; Religion - Theology; Theology; Philosophy & Social Aspects; History & Surveys - Modern; God; Religion and science
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.