The scientific problems Privileged Planet:

I am quite familiar with "Privileged Planet" and while
it is an interesting philosophical perspective, it's
scientific foundation is quite shaky. While the
authors claim their work only partially relies on ID's
argument from ignorance approach, they do apply a
modified filter where they eliminate chance alone,
meaning that what remains is regularity/design. This
of course is a much better approach than the
privileged position given to design by the default
filter but basically reduced ID to an argument of
front loading.

Kyler Kuehn, has given presentation at ASA's 2003
annual meeting and the 2004 Intelligent design and the
future of science conference. See
http://www.ps.uci.edu/~kuehn/personal/personal.html

I have addressed some of the problems at PandasThumb

In
(http://www.pandasthumb.org/pt-archives/000110.html)
The Privileged Planet Part 1: Where Purpose and
Natural Law freely Mix Part 1, I describe the
presentation in Seattle.

In
(http://www.pandasthumb.org/pt-archives/000130.html)
The Privileged Planet Part 2: The failure of the
'Design Inference', I address some of the fallacies.

In
9http://www.pandasthumb.org/pt-archives/000134.html)The
Privileged Planet Part 3: The Anthropic principle, I
discuss the problem with correlations

In
(http://www.pandasthumb.org/pt-archives/000389.html)Icons
of ID: Privileged Planet Authors respond to 'unnamed'
critic, I address some of the recent authors' comments
which underline that Privileged Planet is based on a
single datapoint. See also, The Privileged Planet:
Single data points and naive falsification,
http://www.pandasthumb.org/pt-archives/000436.html
Received on Fri May 27 13:51:35 2005