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Constrained optimization is the art of compromise between conflicting objectives. This is what design is all about. To find fault with biological design - as Stephen Jay Gould regularly does - because it misses some idealized optimum is therefore gratuitous. Not knowing the objectives of the designer, Gould is in no position to say whether the designer has proposed a faulty compromise among those objectives.
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perfection
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optimisation
stephen-jay-gould
biology
optimization
id
intelligent-design
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William A. Dembski |
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We reveal ourselves in the metaphors we choose for depicting the cosmos in miniature.
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Stephen Jay Gould |
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"I published that theory [of speciational evolution] in a 1954 paper...and I clearly related it to paleontology. argued that the fossil record is very incomplete because some species fossilize better than others... I noted that you are never going to find evidence of a small local population that changed very rapidly in the fossil record...
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science
eldredge
fossil-record
gould
niles-eldredge
speciational-evolution
stephen-jay-gould
harvard
charles-darwin
evidence
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Ernst Mayr |