Category Culture

Culture, Intelligent Design

Julian Huxley and Magnus Carlsen on the Meaning of Life

The other night, I was watching Lex Fridman interview the world’s strongest chess player, Magnus Carlsen. That same night a friend emailed me a statement by Julian Huxley on Darwinian evolution, in which Huxley treated Darwinism as a sealed deal.…

Bill Dembski
August 9, 2023

Culture, Nostalgia

Loving 70s Music Without Guilt

A few years ago I provided on this blog a complete listing of all the songs and episodes of Casey Kasem’s American Top 40 Countdown. I had listened to this program during high school, and to this day it elicits…

Bill Dembski
August 3, 2023

Culture, Economics and Finance, Society

Replacing Dirty with Clean Water

“Don’t throw out the dirty water until you have the clean water” was my paternal grandfather’s favorite expression. As an immigrant from Poland, he may have picked it up as a proverb from the old country. Clearly, it is a…

Bill Dembski
July 28, 2023

Culture, Society

RFK Jr’s Letter to Liberals — Book Review

A friend of mine wrote this review for a website whose livelihood depends on SEO-generated traffic. He was therefore unable to post it for fear of offending the search engines and thereby getting the site penalized. I have no such…

Bill Dembski
July 18, 2023

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

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

Culture

Denzel Washington on Getting There First vs. Speaking the Truth

Self-explanatory:

Bill Dembski
June 17, 2020

Culture, Personal, Society

Hugh Hefner, Making Sense of His Life

Hugh Hefner died a year ago on September 27, 2017. For several years now, I imagined I would comment on Hefner’s life once he died. But then my Dad died that October of 2017, and it didn’t seem fitting to…

Bill Dembski
September 27, 2018

Culture, Society

The Sidelining of Nike

Nike’s decision to enlist Colin Kaepernick as a spokesperson and then ascribe to him the words “Believe in something. Even if it means sacrificing everything.” has elicited a large reaction, to which I’ll contribute here. Speaking for myself, I find…

Bill Dembski
September 7, 2018

Culture, Science and Technology

Launch of the Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence

The Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence was launched in Seattle the evening of July 11, 2018. The launch was streamed live, and here is the YouTube record of it: The new center has two websites: Center for…

Bill Dembski
July 12, 2018