dvunkannon
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Just wandered over to what I assume is Eric Holloway's blog, Applied Intelligent Design. His post on CSI Collecting reports on his idea that humans can improve algorithmic search procedures for hard problems because they are capable of non-algorithmic (intelligent) processes.
He starts the video of his talk from the recent ID conference with his own definition of ID, based on DDrr.. Dembski's CSI. According to Holloway, ID means that we should be able (in theory) to create a black box with a light on it, and when anything is put in the box, the light goes on if the object is designed.
It immediately struck me that he is assuming an algorithm exists which can tell if some other algorithm is capable of creating a given output. This seems perilously close to the Stopping Problem, which is known to be impossible.
So I think that the only way Holloway's black box can detect design is if in it, there is a human being, a non-algorithmic process. I'm sure that with a little work, he can prove that box must contain a fundamentalist Christian.
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I’m referring to evolution, not changes in allele frequencies. - Cornelius Hunter
I’m not an evolutionist, I’m a change in allele frequentist! - Nakashima
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