(A letter to the editor of the "Houston Press", submitted
2000/12/15 by Wesley R. Elsberry.)

William Dembski claims to have applied his
"complexity-specification criterion" to biological examples
and found "design" thereby.  Dembski also claims to be doing
science.  People doing science show their work, which allows
others to evaluate it.  With Dembski's claims, though, all
that has been provided is the conclusion, not the
demonstration that the conclusion follows from the data.  Such
a demonstration would include all the various steps given in
Dembski's technical work, "The Design Inference", for each
example.  When Dembski's children grow up and start turning in
math homework, it is doubtful that Dembski would encourage
them to only provide the result and not show their work in
finding it.

This web page links to both Dembski's work and to criticism of
his ideas:
<http://inia.cls.org/~welsberr/ae/dembski_wa.html>.