Bill Dembski – Freedom, Technology, Education

Only the educated are free — Epictetus

Intelligent Design

An ID Prediction for CRISPR Gene Editing

In 1998, I published a piece in First Things titled “Science and Design.” In it I offered the following prediction about junk DNA: But design is not a science stopper. Indeed, design can foster inquiry where traditional evolutionary approaches obstruct…

Bill Dembski
July 27, 2021

Intelligent Design

How to Cover Up a Design Inference: The Coronavirus as a Case Study

In my book The Design Inference (Cambridge University Press, 1998), I laid out a statistical method for uncovering the action of a designing intelligence. That method took the form of an inference—specifically, an inference to the best explanation. Thus the…

Bill Dembski
June 7, 2021

Education

Resources for Going to College

Here are some resources that readers of this blog may find useful in going to or sending their kids to college: Interview by Jed Macosko: Interview by Karina Macosko: Interview by Jed Macosko: Interview by Jed Macosko: Interview by Karina…

Bill Dembski
May 5, 2021

Science and Technology

Review of Erik Larson’s THE MYTH OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Last week I reviewed at Amazon the terrific new book by Erik Larson titled The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do (published by Harvard/Belknap). It is the best available critique of why human intelligence…

Bill Dembski
April 17, 2021

Culture, Education

ACTA Celebrates 25 Years

ACTA (the American Council of Trustees and Alumni) does outstanding work helping to restore freedom of thought and expression to American higher education. Here’s a video in which they celebrate their last 25 years. May their work intensify and accelerate…

Bill Dembski
December 22, 2020

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Theology and Religion

The Faces of Miracles

Eric Metaxas: the face of miracles next door

British writer and Christian apologist G. K. Chesterton contrasted those who accept miracles with those who reject them: “The believers in miracles accept them (rightly or wrongly) because they have evidence for them. The disbelievers in miracles deny them (rightly…

Bill Dembski
September 29, 2020

Theology and Religion

The Faces of Miracles

A Serialized eBook by Bill Dembski and Alex Thomas The Faces of Miracles is an eBook written by Bill Dembski and Alex Thomas. It will be presented on this blog, BillDembski.com, as time permits. My hope is that the full draft will be available here by the end of 2020 (Covid and a move to Texas have slowed down the pace at which chapters are released).

Bill Dembski
September 28, 2020

Intelligent Design

Maxwell’s Angel — New Talk by Paul Ashby

My friend and colleague Paul D. Ashby, a scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, recently gave the following talk on behalf of the C.S. Lewis Society of California: In this new video, Dr. Ashby uses information theory to show that…

Bill Dembski
August 28, 2020

Sports

The Making of the Fastest Baseball Pitcher Ever: An Incremental and Integrative Hypothesis

On September 22, 2020, Influence Publishers is releasing my biography, coauthored with Alex Thomas and Brian Vikander, of baseball pitcher Steve Dalkowski. The book is available at Amazon. There’s also a book website: DalkoBook.com. The piece below by my coauthors and me is a more video-friendly version of an “extra” on the DalkoBook.com website titled “Unraveling Steve Dalkowski’s 110 MPH Fastball.”

Bill Dembski
July 20, 2020

Intelligent Design

Thomas Reid Lectures on Natural Theology — New Edition

An excellent new edition of Thomas Reid's Lectures on Natural Theology has just been released, edited by my two good friends James Barham and Jake Akins. The editors draw valuable connections between Reid's lectures and the current understanding of intelligent design. These lectures are available on Amazon. Here is the introduction:

Bill Dembski
June 21, 2020