Constrained optimization is the art of compromise between conflicting objectives. This is what design is all about. To find fault with biological design - as Stephen Jay Gould regularly does - because it misses some idealized optimum is therefore gratuitous.… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
The problem with merely writing so that you can be understood is that the wrong people, in advancing their agendas, are only too ready… — William A. Dembski Copy Share
Intelligent Design opens the whole possibility of us being created in the image of a benevolent God. — William A. Dembski Copy Share
“Science must not degenerate into applied materialistic philosophy. But this is exactly what it does at the hands of today's alchemists, namely, the materialistic… — William A. Dembski Copy Share
As a biblical inerrantist, I believe that what the Bible teaches is true and bow to the text, including its teaching about the Flood… — William A. Dembski Copy Share
The young earth-solution to reconciling the order of creation with natural history makes good exegetical and theological sense. Indeed, the overwhelming consensus of theologians… — William A. Dembski Copy Share
The scientific picture of the world championed since the Enlightenment is not just wrong but massively wrong. Indeed entire fields of inquiry, especially in… — William A. Dembski Copy Share
Precisely because intelligent design does not turn the study of biological origins into a Bible-science controversy, intelligent design is a position around which Christians… — William A. Dembski Copy Share
“ Johnson is a radical skeptic, insisting, in the best Socratic tradition, that everything be put on the table for examination. By contrast, most… — William A. Dembski Copy Share
“Yet, unlike the causal specificity that obtains for microevolutionary processes, origin-of-life researchers have yet to specify the chemical pathways that supposedly originated life. For… — William A. Dembski Copy Share
There is an immediate payoff to intelligent design: it destroys the atheistic legacy of Darwinian evolution. Intelligent design makes it impossible to be an… — William A. Dembski Copy Share
The positive evidence for Darwinism is confined to small-scale evolutionary changes like insects developing insecticide resistance…Evidence like that for insecticide resistance confirms the Darwinian… — William A. Dembski Copy Share
How a designer gets from thought to thing is, at least in broad strokes, straightforward: (1) A designer conceives a purpose. (2) To accomplish… — William A. Dembski Copy Share
“To exist is to be in communion, and to be in communion is to exchange information. Accordingly, the fundamental science, indeed the science that… — William A. Dembski Copy Share
Because government has tremendous power, it attracts people who are eager to game the system, obtaining by force of law what they could never… — William A. Dembski Copy Share
Without a unified political climate of opinion, there is little or no political profit in doing the right thing. — William A. Dembski Copy Share
