ext_90916 ([identity profile] jsburbidge.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] james_davis_nicoll 2013-11-25 02:27 pm (UTC)

The argument from design, when used seriously these days, tends to be closely related to the Anthropic Principle and focusses on things like the fine-tuning of basic physical constants.

In biology, there's been so much work done both conceptually on local advantages accruing to minor improvements and in finding concrete evidence of intermediate forms that examples like the eye (having emerged several times in different contexts) are now better arguments for the operation of natural selection than for the presence of design.

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