For fresh and in-depth thinking on intelligent design, readers might want to check out a series of recent presentations from CSC senior researchers. Doug Ax, Bill DembskiAnd Bruce Gordon. The trio presented their work on intelligent design at the annual meeting of the Evangelical Philosophical Society in San Diego last fall. Along with David Haines, they moderated the two-and-a-half-hour conversation on “science, math and technology.” The event was moderated by CSC Fellow John Bloom and organized by CSC Fellow Melissa Cain Travis.
Each speaker presented their work in turn, followed by a long question-and-answer session. Bill Dembski explained the rigorous ways of detecting design, including a refined understanding of specified complexity (based on the second edition of Design Inference). Bruce Gordon then showed that design can be detected in the fine-tuning of the universe and that indeed the case for design is overwhelming in this area. Doug Ax then looked at design in biology, emphasizing in particular the inability of natural selection to overcome the improbabilities that hamper chance. Finally, David Haines rounded out the discussion with broader thoughts on the relationship between intelligent design and natural theology.
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