Tag: design detection
Carl Sagan: “An Intelligence That Antedates the Universe”
It’s the evidence from Sagan’s fiction and other popular writing that is especially provocative.
The Logic of Design Detection
Rational agents often detect the prior activity of other designing minds by the character of the effects they leave behind.
COVID-19 Meets Intelligent Design
To summarize, the authors use a terrible design hypothesis, and make ever-escalating claims of certainty from two weak observations.
My Concern About Avi Loeb’s Work in Relation to Intelligent Design
The evidence seems pretty light, at least compared to what we normally expect for a design inference.
More on Avi Loeb’s Approach to Design Inferences
Loeb’s argument represents the most salient example of risky intelligent design reasoning in mainstream science.