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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
October 1, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, Aristotle, Assembly Theory, BIO-Complexity, Charles Darwin, Conservation of Information, disorder, entropy, information, living things, monographs, order, Paul Davies, perpetual motion machines, physical systems, Robert Hazen, Second Law of Thermodynamics, shmoo, Stuart Kauffman, thermal equilibrium, work}

Nature’s Missing Law of Information

_{William A. Dembski
October 1, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Physics

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Conservation of information is not just an idea or concept that sits blithely in a world of mathematical abstraction. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
September 29, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bats, biological origins, books, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, convergence, Darwinists, development, Ernst Haeckel, evolution, excommunication, growth, humans, Inkwell Press, John Henry Newman, monographs, natural selection, On the Genesis of Species, Roman Catholics, St. George Jackson Mivart, The Descent of Man, Thomas Henry Huxley}

An 1871 Critic of Darwinism Whose Criticisms Still Pack a Punch

_{William A. Dembski
September 29, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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A new series aims to restore a historically honest balance to the debate over evolution and design in the study of biological origins. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
August 31, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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, chemists, debates, English, evolution, faith and science, Grzegorz Malec, intelligent design, Poland, Polish, secularization, teleology, Warsaw}

Postcard from Warsaw: Debating Teleology in Science

_{William A. Dembski
August 31, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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An English version of the debate, with Professor Sady's words translated into English, is now available on YouTube. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
August 20, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, advice, Alexander Oparin, amino acids, Baltimore, biopolymers, building blocks, chemistry, DNA, education, extraterrestrial life, geology, Harold Urey, homochirality, hydrothermal vents, Jeffrey Bada, Mars, ocean chemistry, organic chemistry, origin of life, prebiotic conditions, proteins, public school, RNA, RNA world, Roman Catholicism, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, solar system, Stanley Miller, sugars, theistic evolution, UC San Diego, University of Chicago, University of Heidelberg}

Interview with Edward Peltzer on the Origin of Life

_{William A. Dembski
August 20, 2025

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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A student of Stanley Miller and Jeffrey Bada explains the failure of materialistic origin-of-life scenarios. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
July 23, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Baylor University, Brian Miller, Charles Thaxton, Christianity Today, coconuts, Dallas, David Klinghoffer, evolution, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, Foundation for Thought and Ethics, Guillermo Gonzalez, intelligent design, James Tour, Jon Buell, Jonathan Wells, Michael Ruse, origin of life, Phillip E. Johnson, professors, Richard Dawkins, Robert J. Marks II, Robert Shapiro, Roger Olsen, Southern Methodist University, Stephen Meyer, Texas, Texas A&M, The Blind Watchmaker, They Mystery of Life's Origin, University of Washington, Walter Bradley, Washington University}

Remembering Walter Bradley (1943–2025)

_{William A. Dembski
July 23, 2025

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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I’m going to describe some of my personal encounters with Walter that are not in his biography. These I hope will bring to light the man in a fresh way. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
July 7, 2025

Categories
Computational Sciences
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, algorithms, artificial intelligence, Baylor University, Bruce Chapman, coconuts, computational reductionism, David Wolpert, Discovery Institute, education, educators, entrepreneurship, faculty, machine intelligence, materialism, Nick Bostrom, Ray Kurzweil, Reductionism, Robert J. Marks II, Seattle, Steven Buri, students, technology, Texas A&M University, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, Walter Bradley, Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence}

Walter Bradley and the Bradley Center

_{William A. Dembski
July 7, 2025

Computational Sciences, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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Unfortunately, rather than use AI to enhance our humanity, computational reductionists increasingly use it as a club to beat our humanity. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
June 9, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, atheism, Barry Arrington, Big Bang, chaos, Christianity, Colorado, Columbine High School, cosmic fine-tuning, Daniel Dennett, Darwin on Trial, David Hume, Discovery Institute, Douglas Axe, Enlightenment, evidence, Evolution News, Francis Collins, Friedrich Nietzsche, intelligent design, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., materialism, Michael Behe, On the Origin of Species, Phillip E. Johnson, Richard Dawkins, specified complexity, Supreme Court, The Blind Watchmaker, The Design Inference, theistic evolution, tribalism, Uncommon Descent, Unforgetting God, University of Texas, Voltaire, Western civilization, William A. Dembski}

Interview: New Book Advances Skepticism as a Solution to Materialist Ideology

_{William A. Dembski
June 9, 2025

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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"The book's cover features Friedrich Nietzsche and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn holding opposite ends of a rope as they play tug of war for the soul of the West." Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
May 1, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, Aristotle, Darwinism, Harvard University, human evolution, Inkwell Press, James Barham, Latin, Mind and Cosmos, natural selection, naturalism, Nicolaus Copernicus, philosophy of nature, Richard Dawkins, scientism, teleology, Thomas Nagel, University of Texas}

The Emergence of Freedom: A New Book by James Barham

_{William A. Dembski
May 1, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science

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Barham’s approach to teleology in nature is, if anything, Aristotelian. Indeed, Aristotle is the most cited person in the index of his book. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
February 21, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, American Humanist Association, C.S. Lewis, Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, debates, Denis Noble, Denyse O'Leary, Francis Collins, Francis Crick, intelligent design, James Shapiro, Mendelian genetics, Michael Egnor, Miracles (book), MIT, Old Testament, qualia, Richard Dawkins, Roger Penrose, Rudder Theatre, Santa Fe, Simon Conway Morris, Stephen Jay Gould, Steven Pinker, Steven Weinberg, Stuart Kauffman, Texas A&M University, The Better Angels of Our Nature, The Blind Watchmaker, Trotter Prize, Tufts University, violence, Zeitgeist}

Dawkins and Picard Win This Year’s Trotter Prize

_{William A. Dembski
February 21, 2025

Bioethics, Faith & Science

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A reflection on the 2025 Trotter Prize Lecture delivered by Oxford's Richard Dawkins and MIT's Rosalind Picard. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
January 20, 2025

Categories
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, Ada Lovelace, BIO-Complexity, Charles Babbage, closed system, computer science, Conservation of Information, Edgar Allan Poe, Energy, entropy, information, intellectual history, large language models, Law of Conservation of Information, Leonard Susskind, Peter Medawar, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Robert J. Marks II, search}

Conservation of Information: The History of an Idea

_{William A. Dembski
January 20, 2025

History of Science, Intelligent Design, Physics

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Conservation of information” is a term that appears in both the physics and the computer science literature. Read More ›