Probability Arguments for Intelligent Design

[quote=“Greg, post:86, topic:2109”]
And ID is not interested to prove naturalism. But it is honest w ststistical analysis of the likelihood that an event ocurs via naturalistic chance or not after understanding of the nature of nature, energy, matter, genetic mutations, selection etc.[/quote]

Speaking from my professional opinion as a statistician:
No, ID is not any sort of honest statistical analysis.

If ID were honest there would be a likelihood of design to compare to the likelihood of evolution, both based on the same evidence, forming a likelihood ratio test or Bayes Factor. This never happens*.

* except for a few examples of phylogenetic analysis with very specific hypotheses - tests that ID advocates have denounced.

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