Examples of using Specified complexity in English and their translations into Slovak
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Again, this is specified complexity.
Specified complexity means high information content.
Life is also characterized by high specified complexity.
The term specified complexity is, therefore, a synonym for specified information or information content.
Living things are distinguished by their specified complexity.
Specified complexity is another way of referring to the sort of information carried in written text, or DNA.
Information can be defined mathematically in a way that distinguishes randomness,order, and specified complexity.
The specified complexity argument states that it is impossible for complex patterns to be developed through random processes.
The latter is an example of order, which must be distinguished from Shakespeare,which is an example of specified complexity.
But proteins and DNA, the most important large molecules of life, are not ordered(in the sense of repetitive),but have high specified complexity.
But in practice, as Dembski points out, specified complexity in all cases but biology is used as evidence of design, including the SETI project.
Whenever we encounter these two elements- irregularity that's specified by a set of functional requirements, which is what we call‘specified complexity'- we recognize this as information.
Specified complexity is the concept that, since specified complex patterns can be found in organisms, some form of guidance must have accounted for their origin.
Anti-creationists like Rennie and Rensberger quite frequently confuse order(repetitive,low information) with specified complexity(non-repetitive, high information).
The criterion is, again, a signal with a high level of specified complexity- this would prove that there was an intelligent sender, even if we had no other idea of the sender's nature.
So evolutionists(as are nearly all SETI proponents)are prepared to use high specified complexity as proof of intelligence, when it suits their ideology.
Unfortunately, a materialist like Orgel here refuses to make the connection between specified complexity and design, even though this is the precise criterion of design.
This doesn't stop many evolutionists(ignorant of Orgel's distinction)claiming that crystals prove that specified complexity can arise naturally, they merely prove that order can arise naturally, which no creationists contests.