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Dembski notes that the term "Law of Conservation of Information" was previously used by [[Peter Medawar]] in his book <cite>The Limits of Science</cite> (1984) "to describe the weaker claim that deterministic laws cannot produce novel information."<ref>[http://www.designinference.com/documents/2005.03.Searching_Large_Spaces.pdf "Searching Large Spaces: Displacement and the No Free Lunch Regress (356k PDF)]", pp. 15-16, describing an argument made by [[Michael Shermer]] in ''How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God'', 2nd ed. (2003).</ref> The actual validity and utility of Dembski's proposed law are uncertain; it is neither widely used by the scientific community nor cited in mainstream scientific literature. A 2002 essay by Erik Tellgren provided a mathematical rebuttal of Dembski's law and concludes that it is "mathematically unsubstantiated."
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