Intelligent Design is science (Introduction)

by David Turell , Wednesday, October 21, 2015, 14:03 (3320 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: “Intelligent design” is therefore a linguistic trap. Even an atheistic scientist might find it difficult to describe the beautifully functional structure of the cell without using the word “design”. But again, language has its own impetus: “intelligent design” implies an intelligent designer, and that is where scientific objectivity comes to an end, because the term then becomes a philosophical conclusion and not a science. To be true to “science”, one needs neutral terms such as complexity, intricacy, functionality. It is then perfectly reasonable to ask whether such complexity could possibly arise by chance - but the answer will no longer be “scientific”. It will be philosophical.-Exactly correct, which is why the philosophes of science keep reminding all scientists they don't have the complete answer.