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> [“ Johnson is a radical skeptic, insisting, in the best Socratic tradition, that everything be put on the table for examination. By contrast, most skeptics opposed to him are selective skeptics, applying their skepticism to the things they dislike (notably…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-a-dembski/johnson-is-a-radical-skeptic-insisting-in-the-best-socratic-tradition/)

[William A. Dembski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-a-dembski/)

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## More by William A. Dembski

> [The problem with merely writing so that you can be understood is that the wrong people, in advancing their agendas, are only too ready…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-a-dembski/the-problem-with-merely-writing-so-that-you-can-be-understood-is-that/)

[William A. Dembski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-a-dembski/)

> [Intelligent Design opens the whole possibility of us being created in the image of a benevolent God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-a-dembski/intelligent-design-opens-the-whole-possibility-of-us-being-created-in/)

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> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-a-dembski/science-must-not-degenerate-into-applied-materialistic-philosophy-but/)

[William A. Dembski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-a-dembski/)

> [As a biblical inerrantist, I believe that what the Bible teaches is true and bow to the text, including its teaching about the Flood…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-a-dembski/as-a-biblical-inerrantist-i-believe-that-what-the-bible-teaches-is/)

[William A. Dembski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-a-dembski/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-a-dembski/the-young-earth-solution-to-reconciling-the-order-of-creation-with/)

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> [The scientific picture of the world championed since the Enlightenment is not just wrong but massively wrong. Indeed entire fields of inquiry, especially in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-a-dembski/the-scientific-picture-of-the-world-championed-since-the/)

[William A. Dembski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-a-dembski/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-a-dembski/precisely-because-intelligent-design-does-not-turn-the-study-of/)

[William A. Dembski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-a-dembski/)

> [“ Johnson is a radical skeptic, insisting, in the best Socratic tradition, that everything be put on the table for examination. By contrast, most…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-a-dembski/johnson-is-a-radical-skeptic-insisting-in-the-best-socratic-tradition/)

[William A. Dembski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-a-dembski/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-a-dembski/yet-unlike-the-causal-specificity-that-obtains-for-microevolutionary/)

[William A. Dembski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-a-dembski/)

> [There is an immediate payoff to intelligent design: it destroys the atheistic legacy of Darwinian evolution. Intelligent design makes it impossible to be an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-a-dembski/there-is-an-immediate-payoff-to-intelligent-design-it-destroys-the/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-a-dembski/the-positive-evidence-for-darwinism-is-confined-to-small-scale/)

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> [How a designer gets from thought to thing is, at least in broad strokes, straightforward: (1) A designer conceives a purpose. (2) To accomplish…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-a-dembski/how-a-designer-gets-from-thought-to-thing-is-at-least-in-broad/)

[William A. Dembski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-a-dembski/)

> [“To exist is to be in communion, and to be in communion is to exchange information. Accordingly, the fundamental science, indeed the science that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-a-dembski/to-exist-is-to-be-in-communion-and-to-be-in-communion-is-to-exchange/)

[William A. Dembski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-a-dembski/)

> [Because government has tremendous power, it attracts people who are eager to game the system, obtaining by force of law what they could never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-a-dembski/because-government-has-tremendous-power-it-attracts-people-who-are/)

[William A. Dembski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-a-dembski/)

> [Without a unified political climate of opinion, there is little or no political profit in doing the right thing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-a-dembski/without-a-unified-political-climate-of-opinion-there-is-little-or-no/)

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