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Design Yes, Intelligent No
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Design Yes, Intelligent No
A Critique of Intelligent Design Theory and Neo-Creationism
By
Massimo
Pigliucci
A new brand of creationism has appeared on the scene in the last few years.
The
so-called neocreationists largely do not believe in a young Earth or in a too
literal
interpretation of the Bible. While still mostly propelled by a religious agenda
and
financed by mainly Christian sources such as the Templeton Foundation and the
Discovery
Institute, the intellectual challenge posed by neocreationism is sophisticated
enough
to
require detailed consideration.
Among the chief exponents of Intelligent Design (ID) theory, as this new
brand of
creationism is called, is William Dembski, a mathematical philosopher and
author
of
The
Design Inference . In that book he attempts to show that there must be an
intelligent
designer behind natural phenomena such as evolution and the very origin of the
universe .
Dembki’s argument is that modern science ever since Francis Bacon has
illicitly
dropped two of Aristotle’s four types of causes from consideration
altogether,
thereby unnecessarily restricting its own explanatory power.
Aristotle’s four causes in science
Aristotle identified material causes, what something is made of;
formal
causes, the structure of the thing or phenomenon; efficient causes, the
immediate
activity producing a phenomenon or object; and final causes, the purpose
of
whatever object we are investigating. For example, let’s say we want to
investigate
the causes of the Brooklyn Bridge. Its material cause would be encompassed by a
description of the physical materials that went into its construction. The
formal cause is
the fact that it is a bridge"
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