PHIL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Superintelligence, Intelligent Design, Testability
25 May 2014
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Sharks & whales cannot be assumed to be closely related or have an ancient relative just because they are both torpedo shaped. This is because being torpedo shaped is functional for something that lives in the water. being torpedo shaped is a functional similarity. H2: species arose independently of one another by super-intelligent design. Design as abductive inference - **best way to look at design argument. O: organisms have complex & intricate parts well suited to survival & reproductive success. H3: (trickster god): god created each species separately, but made them have the same traits they"d have if they evolved by natural selection. If something is testable, it is falsi able. A hypothesis h, is strongly falsi able if h deductively implies at least one observation statement o. Ex* o1: there are at least 50 people in this room. Could be found false (falsi able) because we can test our hypothesis via observation.
