Abstract

SANDINO VARGAS, Enrique; CACCAMO, Marta; HASHIM, Sumaya  and  ENG, Oskar. The evolution of intelligent design: between religion and science. Rev. Cient. Gen. José María Córdova [online]. 2018, vol.16, n.22, pp.61-80. ISSN 1900-6586.  https://doi.org/10.21830/19006586.321.

This work evaluates intelligent design (ID) as a pseudoscience. Science has many attached formal definitions, as does pseudoscience. They have both been contested in various fields. In the political sphere, they are both characterized by a plurality of conflicting views. There is no single philosophy of science, thus, no unique methodology. Demarcation is not a clear-cut. This issue becomes problematic in evaluating Intelligent Design as its proponents claim that scientists have dismissed ID on the grounds of it lacking scientificity. Here, we select a set of pseudoscience definitions to evaluate whether ID meets the demarcation criteria. Given that our unit of analysis is Intelligent Design, the question we set out to answer is whether intelligent design is a pseudoscience or can intelligent design be characterized as one or more forms of pseudoscience.

Keywords : demarcation criteria; intelligent design; naturalism; pseudoscience; scientific method.

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