"According to the explanatory filter, the probabilities do not imply the existence of a designer, and it is reasonable to assume that life arose by chance." "Most scientists would argue, with Dawkins, that, because evolution by natural selection is a cumulative process, the emergence of intelligent life somewhere in the universe is an event of intermediate probability." "But if Dembski’s new mathematics, which he developed to help poke holes in the theory of evolution, can sustain two such contradictory conclusions, then it does not resolve the debate at all. Indeed, given the nature of the debate between creationists and evolutionists, it is hard to imagine anything that could"
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