Author: William A. Dembski

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
August 9, 2026

Categories
Biochemistry
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A Mousetrap for Darwin, Baylor University, biology, Brown University, bubonic plague, Charles Thaxton, Congress, Darwin’s Black Box., Douglas Axe, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, faculty, injectisome, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, James Shapiro, Jonathan Wells, Journal of Molecular Biology, Kenneth Miller, Lehigh University, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, motorcycles, mousetrap, naturalists, non-theistic evolution, Pajaro Dunes, Paul Nelson, protein evolution, Roger Olsen, San Francisco, Seattle Pacific University, Southern Methodist University, Stephen Meyer, T3SS, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, theistic evolution, type 3 secretory system, University of Chicago, Walter Bradley, Yersinia pestis}

Darwin’s Black Box, 30 Years On: A Seminal Contribution to Biology

_{William A. Dembski
August 9, 2026

Biochemistry, Biology, Intelligent Design

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It makes sense to think that the T3SS didn’t evolve into the bacterial flagellum, but that the bacterial flagellum shed some protein parts to become a T3SS. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
March 20, 2026

Categories
Arts
Computational Sciences
Ethics
Tagged
, Alexandria, artificial general intelligence, artificial superintelligence, batteries, Brownshirts, Caltech, competition, Elliot Pryce, engineering, experience machine, family, fans, fiction, fidelity, general intelligence, governments, Gustav Mahler, human beings, humans, intelligences, language, light, machine life, Maine, marriage, Mars, metaphysics, Palo Alto, perpetual light, processors, quantum effects, retirement, Robert Nozick, robots, Science and Culture Today, self-preservation, superintelligence, technology, The Battering Company, theorems, University of Texas}

Requiem for an Artificial Superintelligence

_{William A. Dembski
March 20, 2026

Arts, Computational Sciences, Ethics

19}

On the morning of his upload, he signed transfer papers, redundancy protocols, continuity covenants, and one handwritten page that no lawyer saw. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
March 13, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Archbishop Józef Mirosław Życiński, Bible, biological origins, Brown University, C. Everett Koop, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Catholic intellectuals, Darwinism, Edward Peltzer, Ernan McMullin, evolution, Fr. Martin Hilbert, Fr. Michael Chaberek, Fr. Richard Pendergast, Francis Schaeffer, Genesis, intelligent design, James Tour, Kenneth Miller, Kitzmiller v. Dover, Kurt Wise, Lumen Christi Institute, macroevolution, microevolution, Protestant circles, Protestants, Roe v. Wade, Roman Catholicism, Steve Greene, The Design Inference, University of Chicago, University of Notre Dame, Young Earth Creationists}

Why Roman Catholicism Needs Intelligent Design

_{William A. Dembski
March 13, 2026

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

23}

Through high school and most of junior high, I attended Roman Catholic schools. I liked the discipline. I learned to buckle down on my studies. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
February 9, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Science Education
Tagged
, A Nation at Risk, abstraction, Alex Thomas, American Mathematical Society, Beatles, Bolivia, calculus, Chicago, Claremont Graduate University, compassion, competence, courage, CRISPR, Critical Mathematics Pedagogy, Defying Low Expectations, designer babies, discipline, East Los Angeles, education, Edward James Olmos, Escalante: The Best Teacher in America, Gale Pooley, Garfield High School, George Martin, Henry Gradillas, Hispanics, inference, information, Inkwell Press, intelligence, intelligence quotient, intelligent design, Jaime Escalante, Jay Mathews, Jerry Jesness, Kappan Magazine, Lewis Terman, Los Angeles, Mary Poplin, mathematics, modeling, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, probability, Programme for International Student Assessment, reasoning, Roland Fryer, search space, Stand and Deliver, standards, test scores, University of Chicago, Wall Street Journal, William James}

Jaime Escalante: Why a Heroic Teacher Matters to Intelligent Design

_{William A. Dembski
February 9, 2026

Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Science Education

36}

Anyone who has studied the history of IQ testing and eugenics will recognize the weaponization of low expectations against people deemed inferior. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
February 5, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Legal Science (jurisprudence)
Tagged
, Baylor University, C. W. Howell, climate, climate change, Conference on Engineering and Living Systems, creationism, Dan Ariely, Designer Science, dial-up internet, Duke University, evolutionary informatics, Foundation for Thought and Ethics, intelligent design, John E. Jones, Kenneth Miller, Kitzmiller v. Dover, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, Michael Polanyi Center, Michael Shermer, NYU Press, Of Pandas and People, peer-reviewed literature, review committee, Robert J. Marks, Roman Catholics, scholarship, skepticism, Summer Seminars, technology, Thomas More Law Center, Vaccines}

Revisiting the Dover Case in Light of C. W. Howell’s Recent Book

_{William A. Dembski
February 5, 2026

Intelligent Design, Legal Science (jurisprudence)

13}

I am widely quoted (from my public writings), but often Howell misses the mark even when an email to me could have cleared up his confusion. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
January 20, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, AI Overview, archaeology, art, Bas van Fraassen, biology, ChatGPT, complex specified information, computation, computer science, Conservation of Information, control, cryptography, Darwinian theory, Discovery Institute, Ernest Nagel, experiment, fecundity, Forensics, function, gnana yoga, Grok, Hinduism, ID 3.0 Research Program, Imre Lakatos, information, intelligent design, James Tour, James Woodward, Karl Popper, large language models, Larry Laudan, law, Lex Fridman, living things, materialism, mathematics, mechanism, methodological naturalism, Michael Levin, Nancy Cartwright, naturalism, ontology, origin of life, patterns, Paul Feyerabend, philosophy, Pierre Duhem, Plato, Platonic space, pseudoscience, Richard Dawkins, Sandra Mitchell, scientific theory, SETI, steganography, Stephen Meyer, testability, testing, thermostats, Thomas Kuhn, Tufts University, Willard Van Orman Quine}

Michael Levin and the Philosophy of Intelligent Design

_{William A. Dembski
January 20, 2026

Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science

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Levin is not a reflexive Darwinian materialist. Moreover, he touches on many themes that intelligent design theorists touch on. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
January 8, 2026

Categories
Computational Sciences
Science Education
Technology
Tagged
, [Un]Intentional, 1 Thessalonians, absolutism, Aristotle, artificial intelligence, Bible, Carl Rogers, ChatGPT, Christians, dopamine, Doug Smith, education, Edward Thorndike, Eighteenth Amendment, ELIZA program, Frederick Buechner, geography, history, Jacques Ellul, Jaime Escalante, Joseph Weizenbaum, Judeo-Christian tradition, large language models, Laurent Siklossy, liquor, Marshall McLuhan, math, mathematicians, Neil Postman, Open AI, Phillips Exeter Academy, programmed learning, Prohibition, Rogerian therapists, Sam Altman, software, St. Paul, Substack, technology, Turing test, William Jennings Bryan}

Against Anti-LLM and Anti-AI Absolutism

_{William A. Dembski
January 8, 2026

Computational Sciences, Science Education, Technology

39}

Doug Smith has been a software developer for three decades. He writes extensively about the impact of technology on culture. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
January 5, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, achievement psychologists, Adolf Hitler, bears, biology, birds, Burl Ives, capitalism, compassion, deer, Devil, diabolos, economics, empathy, eugenics, imperialism, innovation, mathematics, Mein Kampf, Old Testament, Origin of Species, predators, racial hierarchies, Royal Telephone, Satan, society, strength, struggle, The Struggle for Life, war, Warner Brothers, will to power, wolves}

The God of the Darwinian Age

_{William A. Dembski
January 5, 2026

Evolution, Faith & Science

7}

It is a god who still holds great sway. In fact, we might say it is the god of this world. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
October 31, 2025

Categories
Computational Sciences
Technology
Tagged
, artificial inteligence, baseball, Ben Carson, books, ChatGPT, chess, Conservation of Information, education, Jaime Escalante, learning, literacy, LLMs, parents, reading, teachers, technology, transhumanism, Wall Street Journal, Zoom}

Edification vs. Enhancement — The Non-Transhumanist Vision of AI in Education

_{William A. Dembski
October 31, 2025

Computational Sciences, Technology

20}

Edify your kids, don’t enhance them. We are organic beings, not gadgets to be improved with newer and better modules. Read More ›

Surreal landscape with a split road and signpost arrows showing two different courses, left and right direction to choose. Road splits in distinct direction ways. Difficult decision, choice concept.

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
October 29, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Aristotelianism, Charles Darwin, Claude Shannon, decisions, earth, etymology, evolution, Greek, information, intellect, intelligence, intelligent design, Latin, logos, marriage, natural selection, New Testament, possibilities, selection, Texas, United States}

Information, Intelligence, and Decision: Concepts Underpinning the Theory of Intelligent Design

_{William A. Dembski
October 29, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

8}

Darwin’s great coup was to co-opt the term "selection," previously associated with the conscious choice of purposive agents. Read More ›