Tag: Design Inference
Mendel’s Peas and More: Inferring Data Falsification in Science
What keeps scientific fraud in check is our ability to detect it, and it’s the design inference that does the detecting.
A New Design Inference for a New Generation
Is there an empirical method to determine whether a system is the product of chance or design?
“Well, Everyone Has to Have a Birthday” — How Professor Dave Botches Probability
Farina misses the key second component of design inferences. His pattern of birthdays is completely unspecified.
Keating, Krauss, Tour: Three Jewish Scientists with Remarkably Different Perspectives
Here is a fascinating and very different pair of scientific, religious, and philosophical conversations, both with UC San Diego physicist Brian Keating.
Carl Sagan’s Love/Hate Relationship with Intelligent Design
Philosopher of science Paul Nelson explores an intriguing tension in the thinking of the famous scientist and science popularizer.