• use specified complexity as one of their two main arguments, alongside irreducible complexity. Dembski argues that it is impossible for specified complexity...
    29 KB (3,883 words) - 07:35, 30 November 2023
  • arguments against evolutionary explanations: irreducible complexity and specified complexity, asserting that certain biological and informational features...
    179 KB (19,837 words) - 23:44, 23 April 2024
  • regards intelligent design as pseudoscience. Irreducible complexity and specified complexity, are the two main arguments used by intelligent-design proponents...
    125 KB (14,635 words) - 12:37, 3 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for William A. Dembski
    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...
    91 KB (9,336 words) - 11:05, 27 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kolmogorov complexity
    needed to specify the object, and is also known as algorithmic complexity, Solomonoff–Kolmogorov–Chaitin complexity, program-size complexity, descriptive...
    54 KB (7,143 words) - 18:45, 4 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Time complexity
    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...
    41 KB (5,004 words) - 05:21, 4 May 2024
  • is finite). Generally, when "complexity" is used without being further specified, this is the worst-case time complexity that is considered. It is generally...
    20 KB (2,976 words) - 15:19, 13 April 2024
  • 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...
    48 KB (6,302 words) - 10:11, 7 May 2024
  • argument in support of intelligent design. Dembski defines the term "specified complexity", and argues that instances of it in nature cannot be explained by...
    11 KB (1,222 words) - 13:10, 18 September 2022
  • Behe, and, leveraging off the verbiage of information theory, the specified complexity argument, the most notable proponent of which was William Dembski...
    34 KB (4,686 words) - 03:59, 4 May 2024