Biblische Prophezeiungen und mathematische Wahrscheinlichkeiten
Auf der sicheren Seite – ein Eliminationsprozess In der Bibel werden viele Hunderte von Vorhersagen gemacht. Aus diesem Grund sollte man sich möglichst nur auf solche beschränken, welche: Mit Sicherheit vor ihrer Erfüllung geschrieben wurden Nicht in ihrem Eintreten erzwungen werden können (bzw. bei Ausnahmen davon sollte dies wahrscheinlichkeitstheoretisch berücksichtigt werden) Nicht vage, sondern sehr […]
Irreducible Complexity Revisited
1 The Definition of Irreducible Complexity Highly intricate molecular machines play an integral part in the life of the cell and are increasingly attracting the attention of the biological community. For instance, in February 1998 the premier biology journal Cell devoted a special issue to “macromolecular machines.” All cells use complex molecular machines to process […]
ID as a Theory of Technological Evolution
1. Nature and Art In Book II of the Physics Aristotle remarks, “If the shipbuilding art were in the wood, it would produce the same results by nature.” Aristotle is here contrasting nature and art. Nature provides the raw materials (here wood); art provides the means for fashioning those materials (here into a ship). For […]
Science and Design
When the physics of Galileo and Newton displaced the physics of Aristotle, scientists tried to explain the world by discovering its deterministic natural laws. When the quantum physics of Bohr and Heisenberg in turn displaced the physics of Galileo and Newton, scientists realized they needed to supplement their deterministic natural laws by taking into account […]
The Logical Underpinnings of Intelligent Design
1. Randomness For many natural scientists, design, conceived as the action of an intelligent agent, is not a fundamental creative force in nature. Rather, material mechanisms, characterized by chance and necessity and ruled by unbroken laws, are thought sufficient to do all nature’s creating. Darwin’s theory epitomizes this rejection of design. But how do we […]
