ID the Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.

Welcome to ID The Future.

I'm your host, Eric Anderson, and I'm pleased to have Rob Stadler back on the show with us today

to continue our discussion about confidence in science.

Welcome, Rob.

Hi, Eric's good to be here. Thank you.

You bet. I appreciate having you back on. So last time we had talked about a book that you wrote and some criteria that you had identified to allow us to determine whether we're dealing with high-confident science or low-confidence science.

Without going into them, just list them.

I encourage viewers to go back and listen to the prior episode, watch the prior episode,

but just list for us real quickly what those six criteria were, Rob.

Yeah, and also a reminder that these are not meant to be just simply yes or no.

It's a spectrum of confidence.

You could be somewhere in the middle or middle high, something like that. Yeah, good point.

But we want to know if the evidence is something that is repeatable, can you repeat the findings?

Can you directly measure the result or directly observe it? Or is it very abstract? And was the evidence obtained through a prospective study that you had planned in advance

and then you conduct the study so you can control any kind of confounding factor?

Yeah.

And was bias minimized somehow actively?

And were assumptions minimized?

And if you take any assumptions, do you openly disclose those and justify them?

And then finally, do you make reasonable claims about the results that you obtained

under the conditions that you obtained them?

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