Steve Fuller and Intelligent Design

Shearmur, Jeremy

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“…Steve Fuller and others are critical of claims that science has to be 'methodologically naturalistic.' 63 If an intelligence actually played a crucial role in the origin of biological complexity, practicing a strict methodological naturalism would actively hinder the progress of science. A more open position described as pragmatic naturalism (cf.…”

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Intelligent design and natural theology

Thorvaldsen¹

2020

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Natural Theology is an attempt to provide arguments for the existence of God based on reason and ordinary experience of nature. It became quite popular with both orthodox Christians and Deists between about 1650 and 1850, inspiring much of the scientific fieldwork done during that period. However, Darwin’s theory of evolution brought about a temporary decline of this Christian apologetic tradition. Intelligent Design is a relatively new scientific research program that investigates the effects of intelligent sources, and challenges basic parts of contemporary Darwinism. Fred Hoyle first issued the ideas of Intelligent Design in modern times when he discovered the unique energy level of the carbon atom in the 1950s. On Copernicus’s 500th birthday in 1973, Brandon Carter presented the discovery that the fundamental constants of physics are fine-tuned to precise values for life permittance. In the 1990s, Michael Behe and others presented arguments for Intelligent Design in molecular biology, and irreducibly complex biochemical machines in living cells. In this paper, we briefly present Intelligent Design and discuss its possible application within a revitalized version of Natural Theology. The paper is mainly written from a scientific perspective.

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Intelligent design and natural theology

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2020

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“…We may, if we do this, find that our ideas are problematic in ways that we 2 See, for example, the material collected in Pennock (2001). 5 See for documentation and discussion Pennock (1999), Monton (2009), andShearmur (2010). 3 See, for example, Wexler (2006); see also Wexler (2009).…”

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Why the ‘Hopeless War’?: Approaching Intelligent Design

Shearmur

2010

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This paper addresses the intellectual motivation of some of those involved in the intelligent design movement. It identifies their concerns with the critique of the claim that Darwinism offers an adequate explanation of prima facie teleological features in biology, a critique of naturalism, and the concern on the part of some of these authors including Dembski, with the revival of 'Old Princeton' apologetics. It is argued that their work is interesting and is in principle intellectually legitimate. It is also suggested, however, that it needs to be appraised qua 'research programme' (after the fashion of the early work of Lakatos), and that, seen in that light, what needs to be accomplished might seem daunting.

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Jouer l’expert à la barre : l’épistémologie sociale de Steve Fuller au service de l’Intelligent Design

Fages¹,

Saint-Martin²

2014

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Steve Fuller and Intelligent Design

Cited by 3 publications

References 16 publications

Intelligent design and natural theology

Intelligent design and natural theology

Why the ‘Hopeless War’?: Approaching Intelligent Design

Jouer l’expert à la barre : l’épistémologie sociale de Steve Fuller au service de l’Intelligent Design

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