An Algorithmic Information Theory Challenge to Intelligent Design
William Dembski claims to have established a decision process to determine when highly unlikely events observed in the natural world are due to Intelligent Design. This article argues that, as no implementable randomness test is superior to a universal Martin-Löf test, this test should be used to re...
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Year: 2014, Volume: 49, Issue: 1, Pages: 42-65 |
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