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“Intelligent design is most definitely scientific”

David Medici has a good piece in the Sheboygan-Press on intelligent design. The one nuance I would add to his short piece is that while design theorists do compare chance and design explanations for certain features of the natural world, more than that they compare intelligent cause explanations with all of the leading undirected cause explanations. Undirected cause explanations may appeal to chance, to lawlike processes (e.g., natural selection), or to a combination of chance and lawlike processes.

And as Medici argues forcefully, design theorists seek to follow the evidence to the best explanation among these possibilites, much as scientists do in other fields.

Jonathan Witt

Executive Editor, Discovery Institute Press and Senior Fellow, Center for Science and Culture
Jonathan Witt, PhD, is Executive Editor of Discovery Institute Press and a senior fellow and senior project manager with Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture. His latest book is Heretic: One Scientist’s Journey from Darwin to Design (DI Press, 2018) written with Finnish bioengineer Matti Leisola. Witt has also authored co-authored Intelligent Design Uncensored, A Meaningful World: How the Arts and Sciences Reveal the Genius of Nature, and The Hobbit Party: The Vision of Freedom That Tolkien Got, and the West Forgot. Witt is the lead writer and associate producer for Poverty, Inc., winner of the $100,000 Templeton Freedom Award and recipient of over 50 international film festival honors.

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