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William A. Dembski

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Specified Complexity Made Simple: The Historical Backdrop

What happened to change the fortunes of specified complexity in the mainstream scientific community? The intelligent design movement happened. Read More ›
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Darwinists Devolve

One sign of a robust scientific theory is the quality of its most prominent proponents. But serious advocates of Darwinism have become an endangered species. Read More ›
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Dembski and Ruse Look Back on 20 Years of Debate — And a Special Anniversary

The protest about the “spectre of intelligent design” was telling. When critics start talking that way, you can’t help wondering if ID is onto something. Read More ›
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Freethinking Cannot Be Darwinized

An otherwise good essay on the human right to freedom of thought falls into a Darwinian trap of illogical causation. Read More ›
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Design Inference 2.0: FREE Webinar with Dembski and Ewert

Join mathematician William Dembski and computer scientist Winston Ewert as they discuss the significance of their new book and answer your questions. Read More ›
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An Outstanding Year for Intelligent Design 

I saw on multiple occasions the impact the truth about design can make in individual lives. Recently at U.C. Berkeley, I spoke about the evidence for a Creator. Read More ›
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To Understand Nature’s Intentionality, We Must Go Back to the Future

It required the truly inimitable intellect of Aquinas to Christianize and modernize what Aristotle had said 1,600 years before him. Read More ›
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Cronin-Tour at Harvard: How Researchers Smuggle Design into Their Theories

Cronin presented his Assembly Theory as a framework for understanding life’s origin. I believe he is correct but not in the way he intends. Read More ›
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The Interactome Multiplies Specified Complexity

No longer think of proteins as isolated parts in a cell. Think of them as friends networking and participating together in a community. Read More ›
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Natural Selection as the Great Designer Substitute

In this way, the majority of evolutionary biologists, insofar as they understand the design inference at all, rationalize it away. Read More ›

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