03.31.06
Chance, necessity, and…
Talk.reason discusses How We Detect Design. Chance, necessity and design? Note that, at best, we could propose, chance, necessity, some other category. So it is transparent to see discourse suddenly polarize into a dialectically undecidable debate.
The ID inference is very simple in essence. ID proposes that outcomes may be the result of either necessity (the sun must rise because of universal natural laws); chance (it was bad luck that Katrina struck New Orleans); or design (the planes struck the World Trade Centre because that was the terrorists’ intention).