Constrained optimization is the art of compromise between conflicting objectives. This is what design is all about. To find fault with biological design - as Stephen Jay Gould regularly does - because it misses some idealized optimum is therefore gratuitous. Not knowing the objectives of the designer, Gould is in no position to say whether the designer has proposed a faulty compromise among those objectives.
William A. DembskiAny view of the sciences that leaves Christ out of the picture must be seen as fundamentally deficient.
William A. DembskiThe atheist is cheating whenever he makes a moral judgment, acting as though it has an objective reference, when his philosophy in fact precludes it.
William A. DembskiI believe God created the world for a purpose. The Designer of intelligent design is, ultimately, the Christian God.
William A. Dembski