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Leader in the Voice for Intelligent Design
Who: Dr. Del
Ratzsch
Where: Calvin College
What: Philosophy of Science with research in scientific
rationality
How does the concept of intelligent design relate to your work?
I am particularly interested in how broader principles/concerns and
worldview issues function in science, and criteria for determining the
legitimacy of such functioning. I am currently working on a book-length
exploration of some issues linked to the extent to which and the forms
in which design theory can provide scientifically legitimate explanatory
resources for genuinely scientific theorizing.
What opportunities or opposition has your interest in intelligent
design presented?
There have been lively debates and competition of ideas where the agenda
is to get at what's true, and uncover what is mistaken, evidentially
weak, unsupported, or off the wall; these are some of the best ways ever
discovered for exposing soft spots in arguments and positions. In fact,
for that reason I am hoping that there will be subsequent conferences on
design theory where there will be genuine hard-nosed (but loving, of
course) give and take on relevant issues.
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