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- catalog abstract ""Although the scientific illegitimacy of supernatural design is typically asserted with enormous confidence and vigor, there has been surprisingly little actual work on such key foundational issues as even what design is and on specific criteria for assessing its legitimacy, or lack, as a scientific concept. However, intelligent supernatural design is again surfacing in discussions both of anthropic principles and of certain types of biological complexity. This book develops a definition of design, explicates the more specific concept of supernatural design, defends a general criterion for scientific legitimacy, and argues that in some cases the concept of intelligent supernatural design can meet the relevant requirements for scientific legitimacy."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12044128.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""Although the scientific illegitimacy of supernatural design is typically asserted with enormous confidence and vigor, there has been surprisingly little actual work on such key foundational issues as even what design is and on specific criteria for assessing its legitimacy, or lack, as a scientific concept. However, intelligent supernatural design is again surfacing in discussions both of anthropic principles and of certain types of biological complexity. This book develops a definition of design, explicates the more specific concept of supernatural design, defends a general criterion for scientific legitimacy, and argues that in some cases the concept of intelligent supernatural design can meet the relevant requirements for scientific legitimacy."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "I. Design basics -- Design preliminaries -- Science and finite design -- II. Supernatural design -- Supernatural design: preliminary basics -- Identifying supernatural design: primary marks -- Identifying supernatural design: secondary marks -- Design in nature -- III. Boundaries of scientific legitimacy -- Beyond the empirical -- The legitimacy criterion -- IV. The permissibility question -- Cases for impermissibility -- Legitimacy -- Are there any payoffs? -- Conclusion.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-215) and index.".
- catalog extent "x, 220 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0791448932 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0791448940 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "SUNY series in philosophy and biology".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Albany : State University of New York Press,".
- catalog subject "215 21".
- catalog subject "BL240.2 .R335 2001".
- catalog subject "God Proof, Teleological.".
- catalog subject "Religion and science.".
- catalog tableOfContents "I. Design basics -- Design preliminaries -- Science and finite design -- II. Supernatural design -- Supernatural design: preliminary basics -- Identifying supernatural design: primary marks -- Identifying supernatural design: secondary marks -- Design in nature -- III. Boundaries of scientific legitimacy -- Beyond the empirical -- The legitimacy criterion -- IV. The permissibility question -- Cases for impermissibility -- Legitimacy -- Are there any payoffs? -- Conclusion.".
- catalog title "Nature, design, and science : the status of design in natural science / Del Ratzsch.".
- catalog type "text".