" Professor Michael Beaty, director of the Institute for Faith and Learning, said that Dembski's remarks violated the spirit of cooperation that the committee had advocated and stated that " Dr. Dembski's actions after the release of the report compromised his ability to serve as director.

Intelligent design — and Dembski's concept of specified complexity — are seen by the scientific community as a form of conservative Christian creationism, attempting to portray itself as science.

In Dembski's terminology, a specified pattern is one that admits short descriptions, whereas a complex pattern is one that is unlikely to occur by chance.

A study by Wesley Elsberry and Jeffrey Shallit states that " Dembski's work is riddled with inconsistencies, equivocation, flawed use of mathematics, poor scholarship, and misrepresentation of others ' results ".

" The actual validity and utility of Dembski's proposed law are uncertain ; it is neither widely used by the scientific community nor cited in mainstream scientific literature.

A 2002 essay by Erik Tellgren provided a mathematical rebuttal of Dembski's law and concludes that it is " mathematically unsubstantiated.

Dembski's proposed test is based on the Kolmogorov complexity of a pattern T that is exhibited by an event E that has occurred.

This is estimated by Seth Lloyd as 10 < sup > 120 </ sup > elementary logic operations on a register of 10 < sup > 90 </ sup > bits < ref > The number 10 < sup > 90 </ sup > seems to play no role in Dembski's analysis, On page 23 of Specification: The Pattern That Signifies Intelligence, Dembski says

Sloan was the first Baptist minister to serve as Baylor's president in over 30 years, had read some of Dembski's work and liked it ; according to Dembski, Sloan " made it clear that he wanted to get me on the faculty in some way ".

Some criticisms also focuses on the technical theory presented, namely, specified complexity and Dembski's statements regarding the law of conservation of information.

Dembski's reliance on a such a controversial and unaccepted model is also not accepted in academia.

" Critics like Jason Rosenhouse, a mathematics professor at James Madison University claim Dembski's book contributes nothing to the discussion of evolution and intelligent design since Dembski's assertions ride on Behe's claim, and that claim is false.

He states that Dembski's assertion that " design theorists oppose Darwinian theory on strictly scientific grounds " is not even remotely plausible because " nearly every prominent intelligent design supporter a conservative Christian " and recounts how the biographies of Phillip E. Johnson, Jonathan Wells and Dembski himself cast doubt on the assertion.

Marks II and William Dembski as supporting intelligent design and Dembski's concept of specified complexity which he claims is evidence of design.

They learned of Dembski's wish to establish an intelligent design research center.

Dembski's main claim is that the following test can be used to infer design for a configuration: There is a target pattern T that applies to the configuration and whose specified complexity exceeds 1.

" Dembski's critique of this position is that phylogenetically, the TTSS makes an unlikely precursor to the flagellum given that TTSS is found in a narrow range of bacteria which makes it seem to be a late innovation, whereas flagella are widespread throughout many bacterial groups, which implies it was an early innovation.

The title has influenced Touchstone Magazine: A Journal of Mere Christianity and William Dembski's book Mere Creation.

He has coauthored a paper with Wesley Elsberry demonstrating problems with Dembski's mathematical work, and would have appeared as a witness opposing Dembski in the Kitzmiller v. Dover trial had Dembski not dropped out.

Another objection concerns Dembski's calculation of probabilities.

While Orgel employed the concept in a qualitative way, Dembski's use is intended to be quantitative.

Dembski's use of the concept dates to his 1998 monograph The Design Inference.

Lewis's remarks about his marriage were suggestive enough to induce American reporters to invade the offices of Harcourt, Brace & Company for information, to pursue Mrs. Lewis to Cromwell Hall, and, after she had returned to New York, to ferret her out at the Stanhope on upper Fifth Avenue where she had taken an apartment.

Lewis, at the head of the table, would leap up and move around behind the chairs of his guests making remarks that, when not highly offensive, were at least highly inappropriate, and then presently he collapsed and was put to bed.

Dr. A. V. Astin, NBS Director, opened the 5-day session with introductory remarks, following which a total of twenty-six papers were given throughout the week by NBS scientists, from both the Washington and Boulder Laboratories.

they were struck out with remarks in red ink, denouncing both the cooks and the management.

The Warren Telegraph stated that many of Rev. Trafton's remarks were inappropriate and savored strongly of radicalism and fanaticism.

Woodbury's remarks were applauded by a portion of the audience several times and once there was hissing.

Some of the choicest remarks made by soldiers in their letters were in disparagement of unpopular officers.

The 1910 Catholic Encyclopedia remarks that " Undeniably secular and ambitious, his moral life was not above reproach, and his unscrupulous methods in no wise accorded with the requirements of his high office ... the heinous crimes of which his opponents in the council accused him were certainly gravely exaggerated.

Many were especially critical of him following his remarks in the South Carolina primary, which Obama won.

Writing in 1889, Alfred Russel Wallace remarks " It was formerly a very general belief, even amongst geologists, that the great features of the earth's surface, no less than the smaller ones, were subject to continual mutations, and that during the course of known geological time the continents and great oceans had again and again changed places with each other.

These equations of state were also previously published by the Soviet physicist Yakov Frenkel in 1928, together with some other remarks on the physics of degenerate matter.

Other possibilities are that he was merely opposed to Christians who lived Jewishly, or deny that docetism threatened the church, or that his critical remarks were directed at an Ebionite or Cerinthian possessionist Christology, where God descended and took possession of Jesus's body.

" People in the new federal states of Germany ( the former German Democratic Republic ) were offended by Stoiber's remarks.

( In addition to fueling Moore's own work, the " Here is one hand " argument also deeply influenced Wittgenstein, who spent his last years working out a new approach to Moore's argument in the remarks that were published posthumously as On Certainty.

Such views were influenced by an account of Telemann's music by Christoph Daniel Ebeling, a late-18th-century critic who in fact praised Telemann's music and only made passing critical remarks of his productivity.

As Sir Peter Russell remarks in his biography, " In Henryspeak, conversion and enslavement were interchangeable terms.

In the process, many fragments of classical learning are preserved which otherwise would have been hopelessly lost ; " in fact, in the majority of his works, including the Origines, he contributes little more than the mortar which connects excerpts from other authors, as if he was aware of his deficiencies and had more confidence in the stilus maiorum than his own " his translator Katherine Nell MacFarlane remarks ; on the other hand, some of these fragments were lost in the first place because Isidore ’ s work was so highly regarded — Braulio called it quecunque fere sciri debentur, " practically everything that it is necessary to know "— that it superseded the use of many individual works of the classics themselves, which were not recopied and have therefore been lost: " all secular knowledge that was of use to the Christian scholar had been winnowed out and contained in one handy volume ; the scholar need search no further ".

The story remarks that when Judah haNasi prayed for relief, the prayers were ignored, just as he had ignored the pleas of the calf.

Almost all of the initially favourable reports Ribbentrop provided to Berlin about the alliance's prospects were based on friendly remarks about the " New Germany " from various British aristocrats like Lord Londonderry and Lord Lothian ; the rather cool reception that Ribbentrop received from British Cabinet ministers and senior bureaucrats did not make much of an impression on him at first.

In her remarks, Smith explained that in 1967 when she moved to New York City ( Brooklyn ), she would never have been accepted into Pratt, but most of her friends ( including Mapplethorpe ) were students at Pratt and she spent countless hours on the Pratt campus.

Bill Maher's show Politically Incorrect lost some of its main advertisers after remarks he made about the 9 / 11 hijackers including that the hijackers were not cowards but that it was cowardly for the United States to launch cruise missiles on targets thousands of miles away.

Fleischer later stated that this referred to both Maher and remarks against Arabs by Representative John Cooksey that were considered disparaging.

" In December, 1877, a young man came into the office of the SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, and placed before the editors a small, simple machine about which very few preliminary remarks were offered.

Although the remarks were stricken from the record, they still discredited the prosecution's case and Smith was acquitted.