Category Intelligent Design

I spoke yesterday at UTD — the University of Texas at Dallas — which has an attractive campus in Richardson, just north of Dallas. Allen Hainline, on behalf of a local Reasons to Believe chapter, invited me. Thanks go to…

A terrific conference just took place in Denton, Texas (June 1-3, 2023): Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, or CELS. Its aim was to inspire cross-disciplinary research between biology and engineering by bringing together biologist, engineers, and some fellow travelers…

The second edition of The Design Inference will be out in September 2023, exactly 25 years to the month after the first edition appeared in print. Below is the table of contents for the new edition. I was the solo…

1 Background Jason Rosenhouse wrote a book of over 90,000 word for Cambridge University Press, which was released in May 2022 and titled The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism. I wrote an 18,000-word review here on this blog that appeared in…

Book review by William A. Dembski of Jason Rosenhouse, The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022), 310 pages.  1 Why a Guide? Intelligent design can credit at least some of its success to mathematics. Math has…

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…

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…