Dembski: Building a Better Definition of Intelligent Design

The crucial part of this formula would appear to be Shannon Information (Kolmogorov Information & |D| being semi-interchangable, and only calculating how much we need to diminish Shannon Information to get to SC).

I would therefore suggest that we concentrate on Shannon Information.

Dan has previously stated that Shannon Information requires that the probability distribution of the event be known. @Giltil: do you accept this? (If you wish to dispute this, then please state your reasons).

@Giltil has previously stated that “information storage and processing systems within cells” are among the “scientific discoveries [that] have undermined the materialist edifice and given new vigour to the thesis of a Creator God”. This would therefore seem to be a real-world example of this framework that ID has already claimed to have addressed.

I therefore put the question to @Giltil:

Where have Dembski and/or Meyer estimated the probability distribution of the event of “cells”, and from this calculated their Shannon Information? Please provide a citation.

Failure to provide a citation for this, or a similar real-world-example, will be taken as an admission by @Giltil that Dembski’s and Meyer’s claims are nonsense and empty rhetoric.

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