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Only the educated are free — Epictetus

Theology and Religion

The Paradoxes of Hell

Note from author: The Bible’s teaching on hell often gets twisted so that many people dismiss both hell and the Judeo-Christian faith. Indeed, it’s common to see Christian college students struggle with the doctrine of hell almost as soon as…

Bill Dembski
October 4, 2018

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

Education

Light of the World Bible Memory Course

Back in the early 1980s, an organization called Light of the World Ministries put out a Bible memory course: Light of the World Scripture Memory Course. The basic course consisted of five cassettes with 100 Bible verses. The advanced course…

Bill Dembski
September 20, 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

Science and Technology

Virtual Railroads and West Virginia Back Roads: AI’s Temptation to Theft Over Honest Toil

AI (artificial intelligence) poses a challenge to human work, threatening to usurp many human jobs in coming years. But a related question that’s too often ignored and needs to be addressed is whether this challenge will come from AI in…

Bill Dembski
July 25, 2018

Family

Passing of My Mother

My Mom, Ursula Dembski, passed away around 11:30am on Sunday, July 15, 2018 at Comfort House, the hospice home in Pella, Iowa. She was 86. My Dad, William J. Dembski, preceded her in death by nine months (for my remembrance…

Bill Dembski
July 16, 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

Science and Technology

Artificial Intelligence’s Homunculus Problem: Why AI Is Unlikely Ever to Match Human Intelligence

The other day, almost simultaneously, two colleagues emailed me with the same request, though worded differently — namely, to ask for a good argument to show that AI is no match, and indeed can be no match (however far it…

Bill Dembski
May 30, 2018

Science and Technology

The Future of Meaningful Work

Here’s a reprint of an article I published at TheBestSchools.org in April 2017 on the challenge of artificial intelligence to meaningful human work: —————- In the last days of the Obama administration, on December 20, 2016, the White House published…

Bill Dembski
May 8, 2018

Theology and Religion

Granville Sewell’s Christianity for Doubters Available Online

My friend Granville Sewell published Christianity for Doubters in 2016. It remains available with Amazon here. Granville’s publisher, Wipf and Stock, is now permitting him to make the book available online for download on his website: www.math.utep.edu

Bill Dembski
April 27, 2018