Bill Dembski

Articles: 97

Sports

Unraveling Steve Dalkowski’s 110 MPH Fastball: The Making of the Fastest Baseball Pitcher Ever

About Dalko, The Book

Brief Description Gripping and tragic, Dalko is the definitive story of Steve “White Lightning” Dalkowski, baseball’s fastest pitcher ever. Dalko explores one man’s unmatched talent on the mound and the forces that kept ultimate greatness always just beyond his reach.…

Bill Dembski
June 21, 2022

Sports

Unraveling Steve Dalkowski’s 110 MPH Fastball: The Making of the Fastest Baseball Pitcher Ever

Steve Dalkowski Was “El Velocista” in 1960s Mexican Winter League Baseball

This piece by Alex Thomas expands on parts of chapters 9 and 14 of Dalko: The Untold Story of Baseball’s Fastest Pitcher, focusing on Dalko’s days of professional baseball south of the border.

Bill Dembski
June 21, 2022

Sports

Unraveling Steve Dalkowski’s 110 MPH Fastball: The Making of the Fastest Baseball Pitcher Ever

The Gods of Mount Olympus Build the Perfect Pitcher

In writing this article, we benefited from the insights and feedback of Dr. Glenn Fleisig, research director of ASMI (the American Sports Medicine Institute). With its mission “to improve the understanding, prevention, and treatment of sports-related injuries through research and education,” ASMI finds more than a little of its attention devoted to pitching, where injuries requiring elbow and shoulder surgeries show no sign of abating. We are grateful for Dr. Fleisig’s help with and interest in our project.

Bill Dembski
June 21, 2022

Culture, Theology and Religion

Making Apologetics an Effective Instrument for Cultural Engagement

This talk was delivered on November 20, 2021 in Denton, Texas at the EPS Apologetics Conference: Reasonable Faith in an Uncertain World. The conference program is available here. Biola University, the Evangelical Philosophical Society (EPS), and Denton Bible Church sponsored…

Bill Dembski
November 19, 2021

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

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