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Dembski and Swamidass: What is the Status of the Explanatory Filter?

[image] Dr. Dembski has responded to my recent interview: Axe and Swamidass: Should Christians Embrace Evolution? with an article at ENV: https://evolutionnews.org/2020/06/retirement-≠-repudiation I stated in the interview: Swamidass: “Dembski himself backed off from his book The Design Inference . He’s actually stated that he had it wrong in the explanatory filter. Are you aware of that?” Axe: “He’s not backed off from the basic…” Swamidass: “Yeah, I can show you the quotes later…. He’s even stated, I’ll give you the quote, that there was a gap in his argument. He doesn’t think the explanatory filter is the right way to make the ID case.” Dembski responded, however, that I had him wrong. In my book The Design Revolution , which appeared in 2004, six years after The Design Inference , I wrote: Ultimately, what enables the filter to detect design is specified complexity. The Explanatory Filter provides a user-friendly way to establish specified complexity. For that reas…