BOŽANSKI ČASOVNIČAR I NJEGOVI ARTEFAKTI
THE DIVINE WATCHMAKER AND HIS ARTIFACTS

Summary/Abstract: One of the most controversial topics in contemporary discussions about biological origins is the argument from design. In this article the argument from design is analysed in its more traditional form of inductive argument based on analogy between artifacts and organisms. This analysis shows that the argument from design fails not because the features of artifacts on the one hand and of organisms on the other are too different, but because the analogy upon which this argument rests is fundamentally misleading, since it presupposes that we can ascribe ’purposes’ and ’functions’ to organisms in the same way as we ascribe them to artifacts.

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