Author: William A. Dembski

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
October 13, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Reasoning
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, Arthur M. Shapiro, C. S. Lewis Society, Center for Science and Culture, Charles Thaxton, Christian Leadership Ministries, Darwin on Trial, Darwinism, Darwinism: Scientific Inference or Philosophical Preference?, Darwinists, David L. Wilcox, David Raup, Discovery Institute, Douglas Axe, Earl Warren, evolution, Field Museum, Foundation for Thought and Ethics, Frederick Grinnell, Jesuit Campion Center, Jon Buell, Jonathan Wells, K. John Morrow Jr., Leslie K. Johnson, McLean v. Arkansas, Michael Behe, Michael Ruse, Owen Gingerich, Pajaro Dunes, Paul Nelson, Peter van Inwagen, Phillip E. Johnson, Southern Methodist University, Spring Systematics Symposium, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Meyer, Stephen Sternberg, Tacoma, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, The Sources of Information Content in DNA, Thomas E. Woodward, UC Berkeley, University of Chicago, Will Provine, William A. Dembski}

Darwinism: Scientific Inference or Philosophical Preference?

_{Stephen C. Meyer and William A. Dembski
October 13, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Reasoning

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On March 26–28, 1992, scientists and philosophers assembled at Southern Methodist University for an event whose title posed a provocative question. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
October 13, 2026

Categories
Historical Sciences
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, archaeology, CELS, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, forensic science, historical sciences, information, information theory, informational resources, intelligence, intelligence metrics, intelligent design, My Personal History with Information (series), peer review, PowerPoint, probability, search, SETI, William Dembski}

Recent Work: A Theory of Intelligence Metrics

_{William A. Dembski
October 13, 2026

Historical Sciences, Intelligent Design

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"A standardized inferential method has emerged for SETI, archaeology, forensic science, and the historical sciences generally." Read More ›

Archery woman bends bow archer target narrow

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
October 12, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, archer, arrow, BIO-Complexity, Biola University, Bruce L. Gordon, Church-Turing Thesis, Conservation of Information, Douglas Axe, Evangelical Philosophical Society, inequality, information theorems, intelligent design, John Bloom, Law of Conservation of Information, mathematics, My Personal History with Information (series), Robert J. Marks II, San Diego, search, The Design Inference, The Nature of Nature, Turing Machine, William A. Dembski, wind}

The Law of Conservation of Information

_{William A. Dembski
October 12, 2026

Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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There are a lot of details here, and the result is nontrivial though the conservation of information inequality looks utterly elementary and straightforward. Read More ›

Cowboy in saddle horseback on ranch for western industry lifestyle concept.

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
October 11, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Being as Communion, biological evolution, Brian Skyrms, Cambridge University Press, cancer, Conservation of Information, Darwinism, design inferences, Discovery Institute, intelligent design, Introduction to Evolutionary Informatics, My Personal History with Information (series), new york, No Free Lunch, peer review, Rowman and Littlefield, Terence Moore, The Design Inference, Winston Ewert}

Back in the Saddle: A Second Edition for The Design Inference

_{William A. Dembski
October 11, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

4}

The big obstacle for me came from feeling at odds with my publisher, Cambridge University Press. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
October 10, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Philosophy
Tagged
, Angus Menuge, Aristotle, Ashgate, Being as Communion, blueprints, Brian Krouse, Claude Shannon, engineers, Evolutionary Informatics Lab, Holy Spirit, information, informational realism, language, logos, metaphysics, mind-body problem, musicians, My Personal History with Information (series), No Free Lunch, ontology, painters, Plato, Robert J. Marks II, sculptors, Templeton Foundation, The Mathematical Theory of Communication, Trinitarian God}

Being as Communion: The Metaphysics of Information

_{William A. Dembski
October 10, 2026

Faith & Science, Philosophy

4}

"Painters create information by applying dabs of paint to canvas, sculptors by chiseling away at stone, musicians by writing notes on lined sheets of paper." Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
October 9, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, academic freedom, Computations in Science Seminars, Conservation of Information, Darwinism, evolution, evolutionary search, evolutionists, information, intelligent design, James Shapiro, Jerry Coyne, Leo Kadanoff, mathematicians, Michael Behe, My Personal History with Information (series), Paul Nelson, slides, Third Way of Evolution, Travel, University of Chicago, Wheaton College}

My 2014 Talk at the University of Chicago

_{William A. Dembski
October 9, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom

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After it had been announced on campus, Jerry Coyne, a prominent Darwinian biologist at the University of Chicago, tried to talk Leo into disinviting me. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
October 8, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, active information, Amazon, Biological Information: New Perspectives, Cornell University, endogenous information, exogenous information, George Montañez, German, IEEE Transactions, intelligent design, Intelligent Systems Reference Library, John Sanford, My Personal History with Information (series), peer-reviewed literature, probability, Robert J. Marks II, Singapore, Springer, Technical University of Berlin, University of Erlangen, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert, World Scientific}

Breaking into the Peer-Reviewed Engineering Literature

_{William A. Dembski
October 8, 2026

Intelligent Design, Scientific Reasoning

5}

The book had been typeset. Amazon announced it for preorder. And then, with less than six weeks to publication, anti-ID forces sprang into action. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
October 7, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, arrorws, Evangelical Philosophical Society, functional analysis, George Montañez, information, Jay Richards, logarithm, mathematics, measure theory, My Personal History with Information (series), natural selection, Niels Bohr Institute, No Free Lunch, phi, Philosophia Christi, quiver, replicational, Robert J. Marks II, sigma, specificational, The Design Inference, Thomas English, vector-valued integration, Winston Ewert}

Searching Large Spaces: The Mathematical Details

_{William A. Dembski
October 7, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

6}

Think of replicational resources as arrows in your quiver and specificational resources as targets so that hitting any of them counts as a success. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
October 6, 2026

Categories
Computational Sciences
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Baylor University, Charles Ofria, Christoph Adami, Darwinian evolution, David Thomas, Denmark, displacement, evolutionary computing, Evolutionary Informatics Lab, George Montañez, Harvard University, Iain Strachan, information, intelligent design, Isak Dinesen, Jakob Wolf, Kitzmiller v. Dover, Leo Kadanoff, Michael Behe, My Personal History with Information (series), Nature (journal), Niels Bohr, Niels Bohr Institute, Richard Dawkins, Richard E. Lenski, Robert J. Marks II, Robert T. Pennock, smuggling, Steiner trees, Thomas Schneider, University of Copenhagen, William Dembski, Winston Ewert}

Evolutionary Computing: An Audit of Smuggled Information

_{William A. Dembski
October 6, 2026

Computational Sciences, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The most significant stop for me in Denmark was a lecture that Jakob Wolf arranged for me to give at the Niels Bohr Institute. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
October 5, 2026

Categories
Computational Sciences
Evolution
Tagged
, algorithm, David Wolpert, displacement, evolutionary computing, information, intermediate sequences, My Personal History with Information, natural selection, No Free Lunch theorems, offloading, random sequence, Richard Dawkins, target, target sequence, The Blind Watchmaker, William Macready}

“Displacement,” or Offloading, and the Mysterious Million Dollars

_{William A. Dembski
October 5, 2026

Computational Sciences, Evolution

5}

Imagine trying to explain how Alice came into possession of $1,000,000. It would be one thing to say that, based on skills and effort, she earned $1,000,000. Read More ›