Bill Dembski

Only the educated are free — Epictetus

Education

Academic Gamesmanship: How to Make a PhD Pay

I first learned of Pierre van den Berghe‘s brilliant little book on how to make one’s way in higher education as a psychology graduate student in the early 1980s from my then mentor, Leland Wilkinson. Lee loaned me Academic Gamesmanship,…

Bill Dembski
April 6, 2024

Personal

Pivoting to Substack

Hi Everyone, I’ve decided to give Substack a try. I’ve been a blogger since 2005. My preference is for long-form content. But as I’ve discovered here, especially with some of the reprinting of my work at Evolution News, long-form content…

Bill Dembski
March 30, 2024

Intelligent Design

Specified Complexity Made Simple

Historical Backdrop Specified complexity is the legitimate offspring of the mathematical theory of information. You wouldn’t know that, however, from reading what’s said about it on the internet. Take the opening sentence of the Wikipedia article on specified complexity: “Specified…

Bill Dembski
February 26, 2024

Education

Academic Steroids: Plagiarism and Data Falsification as Performance Enhancers in Higher Education

The Similarity Between Academic and Athletic Misconduct In the competitive world of higher education, the pressure to publish groundbreaking research and achieve recognition can be immense. This drive for academic success mirrors the high-stakes of professional sports, where athletes often…

Bill Dembski
January 29, 2024

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial General Intelligence as an Idol for Destruction

1 Introduction 1.1 The Problem Artificial general intelligence, or AGI, if it is ever achieved, would be a computing machine that matches and then exceeds all human cognitive ability. To those like Ray Kurzweil, who are convinced that humans in…

Bill Dembski
January 22, 2024

Intelligent Design

The Design Inference, 2nd Edition, 25th Anniversary Edition

The second edition of The Design Inference was released November 16, 2023 — 25 years after the first edition was originally published. My colleague and good friend Winston Ewert is a full co-author on this second edition. For the endorsements,…

Bill Dembski
January 2, 2024

Big Tech

Google Overreach

Below is a long Twitter/X post about Google repackaging blogger Nate Hake’s content and thereby making it unnecessary to visit his blog, thus undercutting his business. The person who writes the commentary below, Sean Kaye, makes a good start. But…

Bill Dembski
December 22, 2023

Artificial Intelligence

Conversations with ChatGPT

Off the cuff, I’ll sometimes ask ChatGPT questions that come to mind. There need be no rhyme or reason to the questions I pose. But sometimes ChatGPT provides responses that I find interesting and worth sharing. I’ll keep adding to…

Bill Dembski
December 9, 2023

Science and Technology

Woke Ideology as Scientific Materialism’s Legitimate Offspring

On December 4, 2023, I received the following email from the NAS (National Association of Scholars): Join the National Association of Scholars on Friday, December 8, at 3 pm ET for “Restoring the Sciences: Science Under Attack.” Free inquiry, open debate, and skeptical…

Bill Dembski
December 8, 2023

Intelligent Design

Interview about second edition of The Design Inference with Subboor Ahmad

Subboor Ahmad out of the UK interviewed me today (12/2/23) about the second edition of The Design Inference. The interview is available here: Subboor also interviewed me about intelligent design in 2021 here: I’ve very much enjoyed my conversations with…

Bill Dembski
December 2, 2023