Category Intelligent Design

Intelligent Design

The Success of Mathematics in Advancing Intelligent Design: A Guide to Reading Jason Rosenhouse

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…

Bill Dembski
June 22, 2022

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

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

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

Intelligent Design, Personal

The Passing of Jon Buell

I learned with sadness yesterday that my good friend and colleague Jon Buell passed away on Saturday (3/14/20). I had been Jon’s academic editor for The Foundation for Thought and Ethics (FTE), a Dallas publisher of books aimed at un-indoctrinating…

Bill Dembski
March 18, 2020

Intelligent Design

Some cool videos re design

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Bill Dembski
April 6, 2017