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(i) doesn’t seem to be a good criterion if it requires that every scientific posit
identify the natural laws that govern that posit.
(ii) also doesn’t seem to be a good criterion for similar reasons. Furthermore, the
idea that scientific explanation proceeds via deduction from natural law is far
from obvious. We’ll talk more about this issue in our final unit.
If (iii) requires that no “ad hoc” hypotheses be used to protect a theory from
false observational consequences, then it’s a very vague criteria.
Demarcation criterion (iv) is also not a good condition. Scientists are plenty
dogmatic about some parts of their theories.
Lauden’s view is that creation science is science, it’s just a bad science.