Specified complexity
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title:
Specified complexity
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Specified complexity is a creationist argument introduced by William Dembski, used by advocates to promote the pseudoscience of intelligent design. According to Dembski, the concept can formalize a property that singles out patterns that are both specified and complex, where in Dembski's terminology, a specified pattern is one that admits short descriptions, whereas a complex pattern is one that is unlikely to occur by chance. An example cited by Dembski is a poker hand, where for example the re
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Creationist argument by William Dembski
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specified_complexity
date created:
2004-12-13T01:20:10Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T10:44:43Z
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