(Adapted from a discussion at Evolution and Design and from material in Trevors and Abel’s peer-reviewed paper, Chance and necessity do not explain the origin of life, featured in Cell Biology International, 2004.) The Explanatory Filter in ID literature outlines a textbook method for detecting design. If one finds a physical artifact, the artifact is inferred to be designed if the features in question are not explainable by naturalistic explanations, namely: 1. natural law, or 2. chance (I will explain later why I define “naturalistic explanations” this way.) However, two objections often arise: A. How can we be sure we won’t make some discovery in the future that will invalidate the design inference? B. How can we be sure we’ve … Continue reading Perfect architectures which scream design