Bill Dembski – Freedom, Technology, Education

Only the educated are free — Epictetus

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

Sports

Congratulations to Scott Drew and the Baylor Bears Men’s Basketball Program

My wife, kids, and I have followed Baylor basketball since 2000, when we moved to the Waco area for me to take a faculty position at Baylor University. My wife, being from Iowa, was more of an Iowa State fan…

Bill Dembski
April 12, 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

Culture

Denzel Washington on Getting There First vs. Speaking the Truth

Self-explanatory:

Bill Dembski
June 17, 2020

Intelligent Design

Retirement ≠ Repudiation

Some critics of intelligent design seem to be taking my retirement to mean that I’ve repudiated, in whole or in part, my work on intelligent design. So, in the recent recent video conversation by Sean McDowell with Doug Axe and…

Bill Dembski
June 15, 2020