"The problem with merely writing so that you……" — 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 to misunderstand you. Writing so that you cannot be misunderstood anticipates and preempts those who would willfully distort what you are trying to say."
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36 Quotes by William A. Dembski
William A. Dembski has 36 quotes on this site.
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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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Constrained optimization is the art of compromise between conflicting objectives. This is what design is all about. To find fault…
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Naturalism is the view that the physical world is a self-contained system that works by blind, unbroken natural laws. Naturalism…
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The young earth-solution to reconciling the order of creation with natural history makes good exegetical and theological sense. Indeed, the…
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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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Thus, in its relation to Christianity, intelligent design should be viewed as a ground-clearing operation that gets rid of the…
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As long as the wrong people hold power, how can the right political climate even arise?
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The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.
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The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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Dignity does not come from avenging insults, especially from violence that can never be justified. It comes from taking responsibility…
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It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty…
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Come with me into the woods where spring is advancing, as it does, no matter what, not being singular or…
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...the mayor should not be advancing a policy that encourages [illegal] immigrants to think of New York City as their…
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The EU and the U.S. often work together to develop international standards. This is the case in fighting terrorism and…
— John Bruton
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""Dear girl," continued Bob advancing with an imbecile grin upon his countenance, which he imagined no doubt to be a…
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I look to the diffusion of light and education as the resource most to be relied on for ameliorating the…
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The General who in advancing does not seek personal fame, and in withdrawing is not concerned with avoiding punishment, but…
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