RE: Cambridge Publishes The Design Inference.
Pim van Meurs (entheta@eskimo.com)
Sat, 31 Oct 1998 13:07:33 -0800Kevin:
The major problem with Dembski's scheme is that it cannot prevent false positives. This is because he offers no criteria for distinguishing between supernatural design and natural design (except to assume that natural design does not exist). In other words, how would Dembski distinguish between a tree designed and created by a supernatural entity and one designed and created by nature?
Good question and exactly what my answer would have been. How does one detect design ? And how does one detect intelligent design from natural design.
After all we know that nature has quite a capability of "designing" complex systems and yet no-one would argue that there is an "intelligent designer" behind every single act of nature.
Or would they ?