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To: Bonaparte
Do you maintain that The Design Inference is a treatise on theology?

A Dembski man! I think you mean this book.

This book presents a reliable method for detecting intelligent causes: the design inference. The design inference uncovers intelligent causes by isolating the key trademark of intelligent causes: specified events of small probability. Design inferences can be found in a range of scientific pursuits from forensic science to research into the origins of life to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. This challenging and provocative book shows how incomplete undirected causes are for science and breathes new life into classical design arguments.

Yes. I maintain this is just another attempt to impose theology on science. It's reasoning from analogy and bad mathematics to make a case for the obviously existent designer. (He doesn't explain why the designer makes more extinct species than living ones.)

It reads more like Biblical Scholarship rather than a science.

61 posted on 11/07/2002 10:16:16 PM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: <1/1,000,000th%
"Bad mathematics?" "Biblical scholarship?"

In other words, you've never actually read The Design Inference. Am I right?

65 posted on 11/07/2002 10:32:24 PM PST by Bonaparte
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To: <1/1,000,000th%
"Bad mathematics?" "Biblical scholarship?"

In other words, you've never actually read The Design Inference. Am I right?

66 posted on 11/07/2002 10:32:40 PM PST by Bonaparte
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