Glossary:R
From ResearchID.org, a nexus for researching Intelligent Design
Rarefied design
Phenomena which exhibit qualities that can be very reliably claimed as having intelligence involved in their causal history.
Retrodiction
Retrodiction is the act of making a prediction about what science may find while looking at evidence from the past. This is especially useful when testing a theory whose actual predictions are too long-term to be of use while investigating present phenomena. For example, retrodiction is used to test a theory by 'predicting' facts about the past from facts about the present. These 'predictions' can then be compared with past data. Also, a retrodictive theory can be used to present possible data concerning the more distant past in order to predict a possible event in the less distant past.
