... contemporary design theorists such as Michael Behe and William Dembski, who argue, contrary to the neoDarwinian orthodoxy, that ... New York: The Free Press, 1996], p. x). William Dembski, who has a Ph.D. in philosophy, has ...
Tópico(s): Classical Philosophy and Thought
2002 - Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception | The Thomist
Abstract This article intends to review William Dembski's recent monograph entitled Being as Communion: A Metaphysics of Information , in which he establishes an entire information-centric metaphysics. This viewpoint ...
Tópico(s): Education and Islamic Studies
2019 - Cambridge University Press | Philosophy
Reinstating Design within Science William A. Dembski Design's Departure from Science Should design be permitted back into science generally, and biology in particular ? Scientists bristle at ... detailed canons for experimental observation, recording of data, William A. Dembski is a Fellow in the Discovery Institute Center ...
Tópico(s): Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration
1998 - Michigan State University | Rhetoric and Public Affairs
Wesley R. Elsberry, Jeffrey Shallit,
Intelligent design advocate William Dembski has introduced a measure of information called "complex specified information", or CSI. He claims that CSI is a reliable ...
Tópico(s): Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
2009 - Springer Science+Business Media | Synthese
Tópico(s): Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms
2002 - Elsevier BV | Biosystems
... is taken at the model assumptions involved in William Dembski’s (2002a, No Free Lunch: Why Specified Complexity ...
Tópico(s): Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms
2006 - Springer Science+Business Media | Biology & Philosophy
... light of Aquinas's teaching, I first critique William Dembski's mathematical approach to design in nature, and ...
Tópico(s): Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
2013 - Cambridge University Press | New Blackfriars
Andrew J. Petto, Laurie R. Godfrey,
... ID proponents like Phillip Johnson, Michael Behe, and William Dembski. The sixteen original essays address two key issues: ...
Tópico(s): Evolution and Science Education
2007 - Association of College and Research Libraries | Choice Reviews Online
William Dembski (No free lunch: why specified complexity cannot be purchased without intelligence, 2002) claimed that the NFL ...
Tópico(s): Philosophy and History of Science
2008 - Springer Science+Business Media | Biology & Philosophy
William A. Dembski, Robert J. Marks,
Conservation of information theorems indicate that any search algorithm performs, on average, as well as random search without replacement unless it takes advantage of problem-specific information about the search target or the search-space structure. Combinatorics shows that even a moderately sized search requires problem-specific information to be successful. Computers, despite their speed in performing queries, are completely inadequate for resolving even moderately sized search problems without ...
Tópico(s): Algorithms and Data Compression
2009 - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics - Part A Systems and Humans
Bruce Gordon, William A. Dembski,
Tópico(s): Evolution and Science Education
2011 - Association of College and Research Libraries | Choice Reviews Online
Branden Fitelson, Christopher Stephens, Elliott Sober,
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Tópico(s): Philosophy and Theoretical Science
1999 - Cambridge University Press | Philosophy of Science
William A. Dembski, Robert J. Marks,
Needle-in-the-haystack problems look for small targets in large spaces. In such cases, blind search stands no hope of success. Conservation of information dictates any search technique will work, on average, as well as blind search. Success requires an assisted search. But whence the assistance required for a search to be successful? To pose the question this way suggests that successful searches do not emerge spontaneously but need themselves to be discovered via a search. The question then naturally ...
Tópico(s): Optimization and Search Problems
2010 - Fuji Technology Press Ltd. | Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics
Juan Carreno, FERNANDO HANSEN, Matías Irarrázabal, Rodolfo Philippi, M. O. Solis Correa, Francisco Borja, CRISTÓBAL ADRIASOLA, Francisco Santos Silva, A Serani,
... significant authors of ID are certainly Michael Behe, William Dembski and Stephen Meyer.Beyond the differences that can ...
Tópico(s): Innovation, Sustainability, Human-Machine Systems
2009 - BioMed Central | Biological Research
Robert J. Marks, George MontaA -ez, Winston Ewert, William A. Dembski,
ev is an evolutionary search algorithm proposed to simulate biological evolution. As such, researchers have claimed that it demonstrates that a blind, unguided search is able to generate new information. However, analysis shows that any non-trivial computer search needs to exploit one or more sources of knowledge to make the search successful. Search algorithms mine active information from these resources, with some search algorithms performing better than others. We illustrate these principles ...
Tópico(s): Neural Networks and Applications
2010 - | BIO-Complexity
Tópico(s): Marine Biology and Environmental Chemistry
1968 - Springer Science+Business Media | Cell and Tissue Research
... examined from a scientific perspective. The claims of William Dembski and of Michael Behe are unscientific because they ...
Tópico(s): Earth Systems and Cosmic Evolution
2004 - Taylor & Francis | Theology and Science
... showed these arguments to be fatally flawed.” Even William Dembski, Professor at Baylor University's Institute for Faith ...
Tópico(s): Religion, Ecology, and Ethics
2004 - Springer Nature | EMBO Reports
Abstract William Dembski claims to have established a decision process to determine when highly unlikely events observed in the natural ...
Tópico(s): Evolutionary Algorithms and Applications
2014 - Wiley | Zygon®
Tópico(s): Design Education and Practice
2015 - Philosophy Documentation Center | Philosophy and Theology
Tópico(s): Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis
1990 - Springer Science+Business Media | Journal of Theoretical Probability
... the most prominent advocates of ID has been William A. Dembski, who describes ID as a threefold enterprise: (1) ...
Tópico(s): Karl Barth and Christian Theology
2018 - Taylor & Francis | Studia Theologica - Nordic Journal of Theology
Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. I John von Neumann's famous dictum points an accusing finger at all who set their ordered minds to engender disorder. Much as in times past thieves, pimps, and actors carried on their profession with an uneasy conscience, so in this day scientists who devise random number generators suffer pangs of guilt. George Marsaglia, perhaps the preeminent worker in the field, quips when he asks his colleagues, ...
Tópico(s): Chaos-based Image/Signal Encryption
1991 - Wiley | Noûs
Stefaan Blancke, Maarten Boudry, Johan Braeckman,
The leading Intelligent Design theorist William Dembski (Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham MD, 2002) argued that the first No Free Lunch theorem, first formulated by Wolpert and Macready (IEEE Trans ...
Tópico(s): Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
2010 - Springer Science+Business Media | Biology & Philosophy
... irreducible complexity” scientizes the creation narrative of Genesis. William Dembski's notion “specified complexity” does the same for ...
Tópico(s): Biblical Studies and Interpretation
2015 - Wiley | Zygon®
... the outcome of intelligent design . Recent books by William Dembski and Dean Overman, though different in style and ...
Tópico(s): Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life
1999 - Wiley | Zygon®
Tópico(s): Architecture and Computational Design
2008 - Association of College and Research Libraries | Choice Reviews Online
Winston Ewert, William A. Dembski, Robert J. Marks,
Algorithmic specified complexity (ASC) measures the degree to which an object is meaningful. Neither fundamental Shannon nor Kolmogorov information models are equipped to do so. ASC uses performance context in an information theoretic framework to measure the degree of specified complexity in bits. To illustrate, we apply ASC to Conway's Game of Life to differentiate patterns designed by programmers from those originating by chance. A variety of machines created by Game of Life hobbyists, as expected, ...
Tópico(s): Algorithms and Data Compression
2014 - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Systems
Winston Ewert, William A. Dembski, Robert J. Marks,
Genetic algorithms are widely cited as demonstrating the power of natural selection to produce biological complexity. In particular, the success of such search algorithms is said to show that intelligent design has no scientific value. Despite their merits, genetic algorithms establish nothing of the sort. Such algorithms succeed not through any intrinsic prop- erty of the search algorithm, but rather through incorporating sources of information derived from the programmer’s prior knowledge. A genetic ...
Tópico(s): Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research
2012 - | BIO-Complexity
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Tópico(s): Design Education and Practice
2008 - Cambridge University Press | Politics and the Life Sciences