The Design Inference: Eliminating Chance Through Small Probabilities

How can we identify events due to intelligent causes and distinguish them from events due to undirected natural causes? If we lack a causal theory how can we determine whether an intelligent cause acted? This book presents a reliable method for detecting intelligent causes: the design inference. The design inference uncovers intelligent causes by isolating the key trademark of intelligent causes: specified events of small probability. Design inferences can be found in a range of scientific pursuits from forensic science to research into the origins of life to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. This challenging and provocative book will be read with particular interest by philosophers of science and religion, other philosophers concerned with epistemology and logic, probability and complexity theorists, and statisticians.

Author: William A. Dembski
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 09/13/1998
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.20w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780521623872

Review Citation(s):
Books & Culture 08/01/2000 pg. 32

About the Author
Dembski, William A.: - William A. Dembski is Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture in Seattle, and Carl F. H. Henry Professor of Theology and Science, Southern Seminary, Louisville.

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