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William A. Dembski

William Albert "Bill" Dembski (born July 18, 1960) is an American mathematician, philosopher and theologian. He was a prominent proponent of intelligent design (ID) pseudoscience, specifically the concept of specified complexity, and was a senior fellow of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture (CSC). On September 23, 2016 he announced his official retirement from intelligent design, resigning all his "formal associations with the ID community, including [his] Discovery Institute fellowship of 20 years."

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Intelligent Design opens the whole possibility of us being created in the image of a benevolent God.

Design, Intelligent, Opens, Possibility, Whole

The scientific picture of the world championed since the Enlightenment is not just wrong but massively wrong. Indeed entire fields of inquiry, especially in the human sciences, will need to be rethought from the ground up in terms of intelligent design.

Design, Enlightenment, Intelligent, Sciences, Scientific

Precisely because intelligent design does not turn the study of biological origins into a Bible-science controversy, intelligent design is a position around which Christians of all stripes can unite.

Christian, Design, Intelligent, Position, Turn

In God becoming human in Jesus Christ, God has established solidarity with the human condition.

Becoming, Christ, Condition, God, Human, Jesus

Because we don't see the evil destroyed now and thus experience the suffering that evil inevitably inflicts, we are tempted to doubt God's existence and goodness.

Doubt, Evil, Existence, Experience, Goodness, Suffering

Any view of the sciences that leaves Christ out of the picture must be seen as fundamentally deficient.

Christ, Deficient, Scary, View, Views

Intelligent design, unlike creationism, is a science in its own right and can stand on its own feet.

Design, Feet, Intelligent, Right

Thus, in a crucial way, the Kansas hearings repeat the pattern set by the Scopes Trial, which has been repeated many times since, namely, evolutionists escaped critical scrutiny by not having to undergo cross-examination. In this case, they accomplished the feat by boycotting the hearings. I therefore await the day when the hearings are not voluntary but involve subpoenas that compel evolutionists to be deposed and interrogated at length on their views.

Having, Kansas, Length, Times, Views, Way

I believe God created the world for a purpose. The Designer of intelligent design is, ultimately, the Christian God.

Believe, Christian, Created, Intelligent

The atheist is cheating whenever he makes a moral judgment, acting as though it has an objective reference, when his philosophy in fact precludes it.

Atheist, Cheating, Fact, Philosophy, Reference

As far as design theorists are concerned, theistic evolution is American evangelicalism's ill-conceived accommodation to Darwinism.

Accommodations, American, Darwinism, Design, Evolution

My thesis is that all disciplines find their completion in Christ and cannot be properly understood apart from Christ.

Apart, Christ, Discipline, Disciplines, Thesis

Give us detailed, testable, mechanistic accounts for the origin of life, the origin of the genetic code, the origin of ubiquitous bio macromolecules and assemblages like the ribosome, and the origin of molecular machines like the bacterial flagellum, and intelligent design will die a quick and painless death.

Design, Genetic, Giving, Intelligent, Like, Origin Of Life

What I propose, then, is a strategy for interrogating the Darwinists to, as it were, squeeze the truth out of them.

Interrogating, Propose, Strategy, Truth

How a designer gets from thought to thing is, at least in broad strokes, straightforward: (1) A designer conceives a purpose. (2) To accomplish that purpose, the designer forms a plan. (3) To execute the plan, the designer specifies building materials and assembly instructions. (4) Finally, the designer or some surrogate applies the assembly instructions to the building materials. What emerges is a designed object, and the designer is successful to the degree that the object fulfills the designer's purpose.

Broad, Conceives, Degrees, Plan, Purpose, Successful

Naturalism is the view that the physical world is a self-contained system that works by blind, unbroken natural laws. Naturalism doesn't come right out and say there's nothing beyond nature. Rather, it says that nothing beyond nature could have any conceivable relevance to what happens in nature. Naturalism's answer to theism is not atheism but benign neglect. People are welcome to believe in God, though not a God who makes a difference in the natural order.

Atheist, Believe, Conceivable, Law, Laws, Works

The problem with merely writing so that you can be understood is that the wrong people, in advancing their agendas, are only too ready to misunderstand you. Writing so that you cannot be misunderstood anticipates and preempts those who would willfully distort what you are trying to say.

Agendas, Misunderstood, People, Problem, Writing

The mechanical philosophy was ever blind to this fact. Intelligent design, on the other hand, readily embraces the sacramental nature of physical reality. Indeed, intelligent design is just the Logos theology of John's Gospel restated in the idiom of information theory.

Gospel, Information, Intelligent, Philosophy, Reality

As long as the wrong people hold power, how can the right political climate even arise?

Long, People, Political, Right

Intelligent design is a modest position theologically and philosophically. It attributes the complexity and diversity of life to intelligence, but does not identify that intelligence with the God of any religious faith or philosophical system.

Design, God, Intelligent, Life, Philosophical, Religious

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