use specified complexity as one of their two main arguments, alongside irreducible complexity. Dembski argues that it is impossible for specified complexity...
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Intelligent design (section Specified complexity)
arguments against evolutionary explanations: irreducible complexity and specified complexity, asserting that certain biological and informational features...
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regards intelligent design as pseudoscience. Irreducible complexity and specified complexity, are the two main arguments used by intelligent-design proponents...
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William A. Dembski (category Fellows of the International Society for Complexity, Information, and Design)
intelligent design (ID) pseudoscience, specifically the concept of specified complexity, and was a senior fellow of the Discovery Institute's Center for...
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needed to specify the object, and is also known as algorithmic complexity, Solomonoff–Kolmogorov–Chaitin complexity, program-size complexity, descriptive...
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worst-case time complexity, which is the maximum amount of time required for inputs of a given size. Less common, and usually specified explicitly, is...
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is finite). Generally, when "complexity" is used without being further specified, this is the worst-case time complexity that is considered. It is generally...
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to solve a given problem. The complexity of an algorithm is usually taken to be its worst-case complexity unless specified otherwise. Analyzing a particular...
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argument in support of intelligent design. Dembski defines the term "specified complexity", and argues that instances of it in nature cannot be explained by...
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Behe, and, leveraging off the verbiage of information theory, the specified complexity argument, the most notable proponent of which was William Dembski...
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