What is the explanatory power of intelligent design theory?
Intelligent design theory is not just as a set of arguments against various natural explanations for the origin of life. The theory that an intelligent designer existed is based upon the inability of natural causes to explain the data, but also on our understanding of how intelligent agents operate, and how we can detect and infer their activity in the past. Given all possibilities, one could infer that undiscovered or new types of natural-mechanistic laws created life rather than the making the inference that life was designed. However given that our only other alternative is an undiscovered cause, Occam’s Razor should lead to an intelligent designer as a logical inference. Intelligent design theory does appear to be falsifiable, however, as future investigations might always uncover natural laws which better explain the observed data. Does intelligent design theory lack evidence or testability? The S & C booklet claims that “molecular evolutionary data counter a recent proposition ca
