Abstract
Another look is taken at the model assumptions involved in William Dembski’s (2002a, No Free Lunch: Why Specified Complexity Cannot be Purchased without Intelligence. Roman & Littlefield, Lanham, MA) use of the NFL theorems from optimization theory to disprove the Darwinian theory of evolution by natural selection, and his argument is shown to be irrelevant to evolutionary biology.
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I am grateful to Mats Rudemo for showing me Wein (2002a), to Timo Seppäläinen for scrutinizing the manuscript, and to an anonymous referee for valuable advice on how to make the paper more suitable for its target audience.
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Häggström, O. Intelligent design and the NFL theorems. Biol Philos 22, 217–230 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-006-9040-z
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