Over the last couple weeks we’ve been wrestling with aspects of the problem of natural evil. Today we’re going to consider a solution to the problem of natural evil as it relates to animals which is proposed by William Dembski in his book The End of Christianity. We can summarize the problem in two parts: suffering and […]
William Dembski
The tortured attempts to avoid intelligent design continue
Back to intelligent design for a bit. In my article “Intelligent Design, Unknown Intelligence, and a Ouija Board” I critiqued several of Joseph H. Axell’s claims culminating in his assertion that you cannot invoke intelligence as an explanation unless you have an account of the intelligence. Axell posted a long response on July 10. Other […]
Intelligent Design, Unknown Intelligence, and a Ouija Board
Joseph H. Axell posted a long rebuttal in the comment section of my article “Unintelligent arguments against intelligent design: A Primer“. There are a number of claims I’d like to challenge in the response. For instance Axell writes: “Dembski’s ‘explanatory filter’ for detecting design has been shown to be inadequate (false positives being but one […]
