explanatory filter
Criticism of Dembski's "Explanatory Filter": Vindicated
Submitted by Wesley R. Elsberry on Sat, 2008-12-06 15:33. Dembski, William A. | antievolution | criticism | explanatory filter | intelligent design | william dembskiI’ve been saying that there were problems in William Dembski’s “explanatory filter” for a long, long time. Dembski has finally admitted that was the case.
At the February 1997 NTSE conference, when I brought up the “traveling salesman problem” solved by genetic algorithm as an example that countered Dembski’s EF, he responded that his logic was sound and his premises were true, therefore his conclusion followed. Dembski in that instant dismissed empirical data as having any bearing on his work. It only took the better part of twelve years for Dembski to repudiate the soundness of his logic presented then.
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