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Aquinas, Creation, and Intelligent Design | Professor Francis Beckwith

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Dempsky's Explanatory Filter

Behe: Dempsky's project focuses on what he calls the explanatory filter or EF. He claims one can reasonably infer that an aspect of the natural world has an intelligent cause. For example, a pile of rocks dropped scrabble letters that happened to spell bill, a puddle of rain. Behe: How do we distinguish these artifacts from things that don't seem to have resulted from an intelligent cause?

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