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Kantian Naturalist



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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 27 2013,15:04   

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KN, you are an enabler!!!one1111eleventy!


Further cementing my status as a "fellow traveler" or "useful idiot" (please, you're too kind, I'm utterly useless, really), I wrote this earlier.  For those who refuse to give UD any more traffic:

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Whereas I’ve made it perfectly clear that I regard design theory as an intellectual fraud because it treats a speculative hypothesis — “perhaps intelligent design is responsible for specified complex information in living things” — as if it were empirically confirmed. It conflates the abductive stage of inquiry — the framing of a hypothesis — with the inductive stage of inquiry — where we look for empirical confirmation of the hypothesis. The fact that there’s empirical confirmation for the design inference in some domains (e.g. forensics, archeology) tell us nothing about whether it is empirically confirmed in some other domain (e.g. biology).


If that doesn't get me banned, I'm untouchable![I]

  
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