RE: Intelligent design science?
March 8, 2012 at 5:49 pm
(This post was last modified: March 8, 2012 at 5:51 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(March 8, 2012 at 4:14 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: I'm not referring to biology. I'm referring to if you infer a pencil must be designed or a car must be designed. I think it's in the realms of logic but not science.
A person another forum is arguing if you make calculations of why a pencil cannot be made from natural means, inferring it to be designed would be science.
I personally think that would be outright silly and not science, because there is no chance of it even assembling by natural means, for any calculations to be made in reality.
What are your thoughts about it? Would it be called science?
It can conceivable be a science, provided one is willing to elabrate it through the manumental grunt work of systematically and reliablt describing all possible routes by which something can come into being, and then rigorously determine the probability of each of these route having been followed to its conclusion within available time, and compare the aggregate probability involving all of those routes which at some stage exhibit a rigorously defined "intelligent interference", against all those routes which do not involve such.
