Hossein Ejtehadian
Abstract
The main challenge between science and religion often is based on challenge between scientific explanation and religious or metaphysical explanation. Most of scientists hold that when we find the explanation of an event in science then all other explanation will be useless. Generally, there are two views ...
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The main challenge between science and religion often is based on challenge between scientific explanation and religious or metaphysical explanation. Most of scientists hold that when we find the explanation of an event in science then all other explanation will be useless. Generally, there are two views about explanation. The deductive-nomological model (or D-N model) characterizes scientific explanations primarily as deductive arguments with at least one natural law statement among its premises. The second view is inference to the best explanation (IBE). IBE uses various measures of explanatory power to compare competing hypotheses and then make an inference to the best explanation. For instance, the foundation of evolutionary argument against intelligent design is that the scientific explanation makes other explanation invalid. In this article I will show the weakness of this reasoning. Our aim in this article is to examine the logic of evolutionary reasoning against the intelligent design arguments, which is based on the implications of scientific explanation.
