"Constrained optimization is the art of compromise between……" — William A. Dembski
"Constrained optimization is the art of compromise between conflicting objectives. This is what design is all about. To find fault with biological design - as Stephen Jay Gould regularly does - because it misses some idealized optimum is therefore gratuitous. Not knowing the objectives of the designer, Gould is in no position to say whether the designer has proposed a faulty compromise among those objectives."
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36 Quotes by William A. Dembski
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I believe God created the world for a purpose. The Designer of intelligent design is, ultimately, the Christian God.
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Christ is indispensable to any scientific theory, even if its practitioners do not have a clue about him.
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Naturalism is the view that the physical world is a self-contained system that works by blind, unbroken natural laws. Naturalism…
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The young earth-solution to reconciling the order of creation with natural history makes good exegetical and theological sense. Indeed, the…
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Intelligent Design opens the whole possibility of us being created in the image of a benevolent God.
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Intelligent design is just the Logos theology of John's Gospel restated in the idiom of information theory.
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Give us detailed, testable, mechanistic accounts for the origin of life, the origin of the genetic code, the origin of…
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The positive evidence for Darwinism is confined to small-scale evolutionary changes like insects developing insecticide resistance....Evidence like that for insecticide…
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The mechanical philosophy was ever blind to this fact. Intelligent design, on the other hand, readily embraces the sacramental nature…
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Thus, in its relation to Christianity, intelligent design should be viewed as a ground-clearing operation that gets rid of the…
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As long as the wrong people hold power, how can the right political climate even arise?
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If you have no authority to legislate my freedoms, then I'm truly free, at least from you.
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