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“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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William A. Dembski
William A. Dembski

William A. Dembski, born on July 18, 1960, is a renowned mathematician known for his research in information theory, complexity, and intelligent design theory. more

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