ABSTRACT
As we saw, Reid holds that an appeal to the consensus of the nations can be undermined, namely when there is a serious reason to think that the consensus is false. Is there a reason to think that the Design Principle is false? Is the Darwinian theory of evolution such a reason? Again, it would seem not, as the Principle can be accepted even by parties that disagree about which features of organisms, if any, qualify as marks of design. The upshot of this is that an appeal to the near universal acceptance of the Design Principle in a situation of disagreement about it should carry some weight.5
