Dembski’s theory and his two criteria explain why I was right to make this inference. Given the many other ways the flowers might have been arranged and given how wind and rain and other natural forces would be expected to scatter the seeds for growing them, the specific arrangement of flowers qualified as an extremely improbable pattern. In addition, however, the arrangement exemplified several patterns that I recognized independently, namely, the shapes of several English letters. The arrangement of flowers also exhibited a functionally significant pattern in the sense that it met a set of
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