Jaime-Escalante-mural Type post Author William A. Dembski Date February 9, 2026 CategoriesIntelligent DesignMathematicsScience 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 ›
85283df4-0928-4a06-b25e-a75661826d721536x1024 Type post Author William A. Dembski Date January 8, 2026 CategoriesComputational SciencesScience EducationTechnology 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 ›
2f0c54cd-2fe0-420f-996f-acafcea1d2ea1536x1024 Type post Author William A. Dembski Date October 31, 2025 CategoriesComputational SciencesTechnology 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 ›
