Tom English
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Consulting |
| Occupation | Computer Scientist |
| Location | Oklahoma City, OKlahoma, United States |
| Introduction | I was a teenage creationist. And science was not the silver bullet. What put an end to my howling was a scholarly survey of the Bible and an introduction to philosophy of science, both in my freshman year at a Baptist college. Fifteen years later, <a href="http://boundedtheoretics.com/vita.pdf">I</a> began researching evolutionary computation. Six of my published <a href="http://boundedtheoretics.com/bt/Publications.php">papers</a> relate to the “no free lunch” theorems for optimization. I became interested in the “intelligent design” variety of creationism (IDC) when one of its leading proponents, William A. Dembski, referred to the theorems, and also bashed evolutionary computation, in <i>No Free Lunch</i> (2002). My peer-reviewed critique of IDC, coauthored by Garry Greenwood, is the opening chapter of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Design-Evolution-Advances-Evolutionary-Computing/dp/3540741097">Design by Evolution</a>. I have explained <a href="http://boundedtheoretics.blogspot.com/2009/10/bad-theology-and-bad-science.html">here</a> why IDC is bad theology and bad science. |
| Interests | Philosophy, science, poker |