Trained as a mathematician, philosopher, and theologian, Bill Dembski is a writer, editor, and researcher whose books and articles range over mathematics, engineering, biology, philosophy, theology, and education. A past philosophy professor, he retired from teaching in 2013. In need of a vacation from intelligent design (ID), he took a break from it between 2016 and 2019, returning to it in 2020. After securing the rights from Cambridge University Press to The Design Inference, he and Winston Ewert did a completely updated second edition of this work, published through Discovery Institute Press in 2023.
Besides his research on ID as a senior fellow of Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture, he also works on the connections linking freedom, technology, and education—specifically, how education helps to advance human freedom with the aid of technology. As an entrepreneur, he has built educational software and websites. His main entrepreneurial enterprise these days is Inkwell.net, a book production technology, along with its associated Inkwell Press.
At the same time, Bill continues to write on an expanding range of subjects both through his Substack column and with biographies of people who interest him, such as the math teacher Jaime Escalante, the baseball pitcher Steve Dalkowski, and the ID engineer Walter Bradley.
Bill lives near Denton, Texas and is pictured above with his doctoral supervisor, Leo Kadanoff (August 2014). For more on Bill’s work, see his life work page on this blog.