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Even though I don't really have an essay, I felt I had to register here so, I've done this. "In No Free Lunch [19, p. xi] he gives a process-oriented account of
design: (1) A designer conceives a purpose. (2) To accomplish that
purpose, the designer forms a plan. (3) To execute the plan, the
designer species building materials and assembly instructions.
(4) Finally, the designer or some surrogate applies the assembly
instructions to the building materials. But this is not a positive
account of what constitutes design."
Pagano's analysis:
Again it's not clear what is entailed by a "positive account of
design." Furthmore Dembski never wrote that steps (1) - (4)
constituted either a precise definition of design or an account of
design. Nonetheless the steps outlined by Dembski of how a designer
gets from a thought to a thing seem reasonably "positive" and
informative to me: Pagano's analysis:
This is sophmoric verbalism not a scholarly critique...