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Specified complexity

Specified complexity is a creationist intelligent design argument introduced by William Dembski. 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…

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Definition

Law of conservation of information

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Criticism

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Specified complexity

Nodes51
Edges50
Triples49
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.039216
Components1

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Specified complexity

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related to Criticism · 17
Specified complexity → Complexity, Conservation, Dembski, Dembski's, Demski's, Elsberry, In, Information, Jeffrey Shallit, Law, No Free Lunch, No Free Lunch Dembski, On, Shallit, The, These, When Tellgren
related to Orgel's terminology · 16
Specified complexity → Another, Bradley, Charles Thaxton, Darwinian, Dembski, Leslie Orgel, Life, Molecules, Natural Selection, Orgel, RNA, The, The Creation Hypothesis, The Origins, Walter, William
related to Dembski's definition · 8
Specified complexity → Dembski, Dembski's, He, Shakespearean, Specified, The Design Inference, Whereas Orgel, While Orgel
related to Calculation of specified complexity · 6
Specified complexity → Dembski, Dembski's, However, No Free Lunch, This, Thus
is a · 2
Specified complexity → creationist intelligent design argument introduced by William Dembski, reliable marker of design by an intelligent agent

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dembski specified complexity dembski's information complex design probability csi one pattern natural concept patterns argues claims cannot chance intelligent calculation

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Specified complexityis acreationist intelligent design argument introduced by William Dembski0.90text
Specified complexityis areliable marker of design by an intelligent agent0.90text
Specified complexityrelated to Calculation of specified complexityThus0.60section
Specified complexityrelated to Calculation of specified complexityDembski's0.60section
Specified complexityrelated to Calculation of specified complexityNo Free Lunch0.60section
Specified complexityrelated to Calculation of specified complexityThis0.60section
Specified complexityrelated to Calculation of specified complexityDembski0.60section
Specified complexityrelated to Calculation of specified complexityHowever0.60section
Specified complexityrelated to CriticismThe0.60section
Specified complexityrelated to CriticismDembski's0.60section
Specified complexityrelated to CriticismElsberry0.60section
Specified complexityrelated to CriticismShallit0.60section

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