(May 5, 2019 at 11:59 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: Ok. I'm back.Thanks for taking the time--I knew it was all bullshit.
Quote:Specified complexity is a concept proposed by William Dembski and used by him and others to promote the pseudoscientific arguments 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. Proponents of intelligent design use specified complexity as one of their two main arguments, alongside .https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specified_complexity
Yay! Your friend's argument contains a pseudoscientific concept that was invented for the express purpose of making ID arguments intelligible.
I neither have the time nor energy to parse through this bullshit, but this wiki article covers some of the basic criticisms of specified complexity and should serve as a fine starting point for your research.
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