Tag: University of Illinois at Chicago

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
October 3, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, Alexander Hall, Arthur Fine, Bill Wimsatt, David Hull, David Malament, design detection, divorce, doctoral studies, Douglas Axe, Edward Teller, evolution, intelligent design, J. Gresham Machen, Jonathan Wells, mathematics, Michael Behe, My Personal History with Information (series), natural theology, Northwestern University, Paul Nelson, Paul Teller, Phillip E. Johnson, philosophy, philosophy of science, Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton University, probability, Sisyphus, specification, specified complexity, Stephen Meyer, The Design Inference, University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Pittsburgh, William Paley, Winston Ewert}

Philosophy, Theology, and an Inference to Design

_{William A. Dembski
October 3, 2026

Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Philosophy of Science

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My dissertation on the logic of conditionals came to seems like the rock of Sisyphus. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
October 1, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, American Scientific Affiliation, biology, Cambridge, Charles Thaxton, Douglas Axe, England, information, intelligent design, My Personal History with Information (series), nonrandomness, Paul Nelson, Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith, Prague, randomness, Stephen Meyer, University of Chicago, University of Illinois at Chicago}

Flying Solo Before Joining Steve Meyer and Paul Nelson

_{William A. Dembski
October 1, 2026

Intelligent Design, Mathematics

3}

I had a deep sense of calling that I needed to work on bringing design back into science. But I had no colleagues to talk with about this. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
September 30, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Brian Skyrms, Cambridge University Press, chance, complexity, improbability, information, Jaakko Hintikka, My Personal History with Information (series), natural selection, Ohio State University, philosophy, randomness, Richard Dawkins, specified complexity, Synthese, The Design Inference, University of Illinois at Chicago, Winston Ewert}

Precursors to the Design Inference — And a Nod to Dawkins

_{William A. Dembski
September 30, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

4}

For Richard Dawkins, specified complexity required some special effort of explanation, but that effort could be performed by Darwinian natural selection. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
September 29, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, Arthur Fine, asymmetry, Bill Wimsatt, Christianity, computer science, David Malament, doctorate, economics, faith, Guinness Book of World Records, Harold Booher, Harvey Friedman, James Gleick, mathematics, My Personal History with Information (series), New York Times, nonrandomness, Northwestern University, Noûs, Ohio State University, Persi Diaconis, philosophy, psychology, randomness, Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford University, statistics, The Design Inference, University of Chicago, University of Illinois at Chicago}

Randomness by Design: A Derivative Idea, and a Fundamental One

_{William A. Dembski
September 29, 2026

Intelligent Design, Philosophy

5}

My Christian faith was indispensable here. From the vantage of naturalism or materialism, randomness is fundamental. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
September 26, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A. E. Wilder-Smith, apologetics, biological complexity, biology, Chinese Room, creationists, function, genotype, information, information processing, intelligent design, John Searle, Marcel Schützenberger, Martin M. Kaplan, Mathematical Challenges to the Neo-Darwinian Interpretation of Evolution, My Personal History with Information (series), naturalism, Paul S. Moorhead, phenotype, semantics, Stanislaw Ulam, The Creation of Life, University of Illinois at Chicago, William Dembski, Wistar Symposium, Young Earth Creationism}

Information in Biology: A Mystery for Naturalism

_{William A. Dembski
September 26, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

4}

Biology was giving us computer programming and symbolic codes which, by mapping functional structures to functional structures, exhibited a tacit semantics. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
September 25, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, C. S. Lewis, Carl Sagan, Christianity, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Close Encounters: A Better Explanation, Douglas Axe, Duane Gish, evolution, extraterrestrials, Francis Schaeffer, G. K. Chesterton, Henry Morris, Institute for Creation Research, John Warwick Montgomery, My Personal History with Information (series), naturalism, New Age, Pandora’s box, Stephen Meyer, Steven Spielberg, UFOs, University of Illinois, University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Illinois Chicago Circle, William Dembski}

My History with Information: Opening Pandora’s Box

_{William A. Dembski
September 25, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Naturalism is like a Pandora’s box in that all of scientific explanation must be kept inside it. Read More ›