Commentary on William A. Dembski's "No Free Lunch: Why Specified Complexity Cannot Be Purchased without Intelligence"

(Lanham, Maryland:Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2002, 404pp.)

Review commentary by Wesley R. Elsberry

The intellectual history of "No Free Lunch"

Tracing concepts and text in NFL

Preface
Chapter 3: Specified complexity as information
- Section 3.1: Information
  - Variants of one essay on ID and information. Intelligent Design Theory. Intelligent Design as a Theory of Information. Intelligent Design (also at the NTSE site): Dembski WA. Intelligent design as a theory of information. Conference on Naturalism, Theism, and the Scientific Enterprise (Austin, Texas). http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/philosophy/faculty/koons/ntse/papers/Dembski.html. Accessed March 8, 1999. (NTSE conference home page.)
- Section 3.7: Biological information
  - Variants of one essay on ID and information. Intelligent Design Theory. Intelligent Design as a Theory of Information. Intelligent Design (also at the NTSE site): Dembski WA. Intelligent design as a theory of information. Conference on Naturalism, Theism, and the Scientific Enterprise (Austin, Texas). http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/philosophy/faculty/koons/ntse/papers/Dembski.html. Accessed March 8, 1999. (NTSE conference home page.)
- Section 3.8: The origin of complex specified information
  - Variants of one essay on ID and information. Intelligent Design Theory. Intelligent Design as a Theory of Information. Intelligent Design (also at the NTSE site): Dembski WA. Intelligent design as a theory of information. Conference on Naturalism, Theism, and the Scientific Enterprise (Austin, Texas). http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/philosophy/faculty/koons/ntse/papers/Dembski.html. Accessed March 8, 1999. (NTSE conference home page.)
- Section 3.9: The law of conservation of information
  - Variants of one essay on ID and information. Intelligent Design Theory. Intelligent Design as a Theory of Information. Intelligent Design (also at the NTSE site): Dembski WA. Intelligent design as a theory of information. Conference on Naturalism, Theism, and the Scientific Enterprise (Austin, Texas). http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/philosophy/faculty/koons/ntse/papers/Dembski.html. Accessed March 8, 1999. (NTSE conference home page.)
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Chapter 6: Design as a scientific research program
- Section 6.1: Outline of a positive research program
  - Derives from the essay with the list of 14 "research problems" ID poses.
- Section 6.2: The pattern of evolution
  - Variants of one essay on ID and information. Intelligent Design Theory. Intelligent Design as a Theory of Information. Intelligent Design (also at the NTSE site): Dembski WA. Intelligent design as a theory of information. Conference on Naturalism, Theism, and the Scientific Enterprise (Austin, Texas). http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/philosophy/faculty/koons/ntse/papers/Dembski.html. Accessed March 8, 1999. (NTSE conference home page.)
- Section 6.3: The incompleteness of natural laws
  - 2000/11/18: W.A. Dembski's Intelligent Design Coming Clean Meta-Views post. (See part 4, Nature's Formational Economy.)
- Section 6.4: Does specified complexity have a mechanism?
  - 2000/11/18: W.A. Dembski's Intelligent Design Coming Clean Meta-Views post. (See part 6. How Can an Unembodied Intelligence Interact with the Natural World?)
- Section 6.10: Magic, mechanism, and design
  - Who's got the Magic by William A. Dembski