Chapter The Trojan Horse in the City of Science, or Impression on Miracles and Irreducible Complexity

Overview & Synopsis

The aim of this text is to show the mutual entanglement of the concept of miracle and the concept of irreducible complexity. The text contains a comparative analysis of both concepts in a historical and contemporary context. Intelligent design theory implies a idea of miracle. The concept of miracle is problematic from the point of view of philosophy of religion and philosophy of science. In this way ID theory on one hand bring into science a completely unfamiliar category, a category of miracle which is totally ineffective in explanation. On the other hand it assumes the God of the gaps concept, which is troublesome from the theological point of view, because it offend God’s omnipotence.