When Building Our Case for Intelligent Design, How Should We Think About Prior Probability?

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Bayes’s theorem is a tool for modeling our evaluation of evidences to appropriately apportion the confidence in our conclusions to the strength of the evidence. Source
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The Advantages of a Bayesian Approach to ID

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Lydia McGrew gives the analogy that there is always a possibility that prehistoric civilizations did not have the ability or desire to make arrowheads. Source
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