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Whats csi?

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Complex Specified Information

It's a theory put forward by a mathematician named William Dembski that is intended to support Intelligent Design. Peace and I had been arguing about it for several weeks prior to Voat going down.

The really, really roughshod summary would be: you take the minimum definition for an event (a duration in time) possible in the universe, and you calculate a conservative value for the total possible events that have ever occurred in the universe. Say that's 10100 of these events in the whole life of the universe. Call that the Universal Probability Bound (UPB). If something happened, it happened in less steps than that.

If you could show that a complex event with a specified pattern (like DNA) had a lower likelihood than 1 chance / UPB of occurring, then it couldn't have happened randomly. Something made it happen.

I was just comparing the logic behind it with how we're looking at the Koontz situation; there is some similar shit going on there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specified_complexity