William A. Dembski Quotes:
Ocupation: Mathematician
Life: b. July 18, 1960
Birthday: July 18
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.
topic: Art, Knowing, Design, Jay Gould, Optimization, Optimum
