"Scientists rightly resist invoking the supernatural in scientific……" — William A. Dembski
"Scientists rightly resist invoking the supernatural in scientific explanations for fear of committing a god-of-the-gaps fallacy (the fallacy of using God as a stop-gap for ignorance). Yet without some restriction on the use of chance, scientists are in danger of committing a logically equivalent fallacy-one we may call the “chance-of-the-gaps fallacy.” Chance, like God, can become a stop-gap for ignorance."
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36 Quotes by William A. Dembski
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I believe God created the world for a purpose. The Designer of intelligent design is, ultimately, the Christian God.
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Christ is indispensable to any scientific theory, even if its practitioners do not have a clue about him.
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Intelligent Design opens the whole possibility of us being created in the image of a benevolent God.
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Intelligent design is just the Logos theology of John's Gospel restated in the idiom of information theory.
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Give us detailed, testable, mechanistic accounts for the origin of life, the origin of the genetic code, the origin of…
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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…
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The mechanical philosophy was ever blind to this fact. Intelligent design, on the other hand, readily embraces the sacramental nature…
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