Bill Dembski

Articles: 74

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

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

This is a serialized eBook by Bill Dembski and Alex Thomas. Delayed on account of Covid, this book is slated to have all its chapters fully polished and published by the end of 2023.

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

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