Constrained optimization art compromise conflicting objectives. design — William A. Dembski, Signs Intelligence: Understanding Intelligent Design

Signs of Intelligence: Understanding Intelligent Design William A. Dembski

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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.

William A. Dembski, Signs of Intelligence: Understanding Intelligent Design

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