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posted 09. December 2001 23:48
ID as a Theory of Technological Evolution
by William A. Dembski
William_Dembski@baylor.edu
ABSTRACT—I delivered this paper as a lecture at the June 2001 AAAS conference at Haverford College. The conference title was Interpreting Evolution. My lecture was part of a session on intelligent design in which I was paired with Wesley Elsberry (hence the reference to him in the paper). Essentially what I was trying to do with this paper was identify bridges between work of the intelligent design community and that of others outside that community, most notably the work of Russian patent engineers that goes by the acronym TRIZ (in English sometimes transliterated TIPS -- theory of inventive problem solving). This work seems to me particularly important because its promises to help fill in the narrative of what happened in a natural history where intelligent agency rather than blind natural causes play the principal role.
"This essay first appeared in Metanexus: The Online Forum on Religion and Science <http://www.metanexus.net> and is reproduced here with permission. Copyright William A. Dembski, 2001."
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