While a great deal of abuse has been directed at intelligent design theory (ID), its starting point is a fact about biological organisms that cries out for explanation, namely "specified complexity" (SC). Advocates of ID deploy three kind of argument from specified complexity to the existence of a designer: an eliminative argument, an inductive argument, and an inference to the best explanation. Only the first of these merits the abuse directed at it; the other two arguments are worthy of respect. If they fail, it is only because we have a better explanation of SC, namely Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007.
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Dawes, G. W. (2007). What is wrong with intelligent design? International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 61(2), 69–81. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11153-007-9112-2
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