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It seemed to me to be a sexed-up version of Paley's watchmaker argument,
Ding ding ding! You win the prize! Actually, it's considerably less sexy; the eye (Paley's fave example) is much cooler and easier to talk about than blood clotting cascades.
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and that the scientist had only added "two more islands between Los Angeles and Tokyo".
And here Dembski tips his hand completely as a "God of the Gaps" proponent. Of course, he starts by maintaining there were NOT any islands between L.A. and Tokyo...but when shown to be wrong, he now says that every intervening step just creates more gaps, the classic "God of the Gaps" response.
As a side note, the "L.A. to Tokyo" schtick is an interesting rhetorical choice on his part, because we know there are wide expanses of ocean between the real L.A. and Tokyo. He could just as easily have chosen Key West and Florida, but that wouldn't bias people's intuitions nearly as much, would it?
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