
A noted mathematician and philosopher, William A. Dembski was a founding Senior Fellow with Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture from 1996 until 2016. His most recent book relating to intelligent design is Being as Communion: A Metaphysics of Information (2014).
Dr. Dembski was previously the Phillip E. Johnson Research Professor of Culture and Science at Southern Evangelical Seminary; a Research Professor in Philosophy at Southwestern Seminary, where he directed its Center for Cultural Engagement; the Carl F. H. Henry Professor of Theology and Science at Southern Seminary, where he founded its Center for Theology and Science; and an Associate Research Professor in the Conceptual Foundations of Science at Baylor University, where he headed the first intelligent design think-tank at a major research university: The Michael Polanyi Center.
Dr. Dembski has taught at Northwestern University, the University of Notre Dame, and the University of Dallas. He has done postdoctoral work in mathematics at MIT, in physics at the University of Chicago, and in computer science at Princeton University. Dr. Dembski is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he earned a B.A. in psychology, an M.S. in statistics, and a Ph.D. in philosophy. He also received a doctorate in mathematics from the University of Chicago in 1988 and a master of divinity degree from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1996. He has held National Science Foundation graduate and postdoctoral fellowships.
Dr. Dembski has published articles in mathematics, philosophy, and theology journals and is the author/editor of more than twenty books. In The Design Inference: Eliminating Chance Through Small Probabilities (Cambridge University Press, 1998), he examines the design argument in a post-Darwinian context and analyzes the connections linking chance, probability, and intelligent causation. The sequel to this book, No Free Lunch: Why Specified Complexity Cannot Be Purchased without Intelligence, appeared with Rowman & Littlefield in 2002 and critiques Darwinian and other naturalistic accounts of evolution. Dr. Dembski has edited several influential anthologies, including The Nature of Nature: Examining the Role of Naturalism in Science (ISI, 2011, co-edited with Bruce Gordon), Uncommon Dissent: Intellectuals Who Find Darwinism Unconvincing (ISI, 2004) and Debating Design: From Darwin to DNA (Cambridge University Press, 2004, co-edited with Michael Ruse). His most comprehensive treatment of intelligent design to date, co-authored with Jonathan Wells, is titled The Design of Life: Discovering Signs of Intelligence in Biological Systems.
As interest in intelligent design has grown in the wider culture, Dr. Dembski has assumed the role of public intellectual. In addition to lecturing around the world at colleges and universities, he appears on radio and television. His work has been cited in newspaper and magazine articles, including three front page stories in the New York Times as well as the August 15, 2005 Time magazine cover story on intelligent design. He has appeared on the BBC, NPR (Diane Rehm, etc.), PBS (Inside the Law with Jack Ford; Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson), CSPAN2, CNN, Fox News, ABC Nightline, and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
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Dialogue with ChatGPT on Intelligent Design

Did Chess Ace Hans Niemann Cheat? A Design Detection Poser

William Dembski Teases an Updated Edition of an ID Classic

Rosenhouse’s Whoppers: An Appeal to Sanity

Rosenhouse’s Whoppers: Probability Theory Is Irrelevant

Rosenhouse’s Whoppers: Seeing Patterns in Biology Is Like Seeing Dragons in the Clouds

Rosenhouse’s Whoppers: The Environment as a Source of Information

Rosenhouse’s Whoppers: Appealing to the Unwashed Middle

Rosenhouse’s Whoppers: More Guidance on Reading Jason Rosenhouse

Darwinists’ Delusion: Closing Thoughts on Jason Rosenhouse

Conservation of Information — The Theorems

William Dembski: Why Intelligent Design Matters

William Dembski on Scientism, Science, and Christian Faith

ID Pioneer William Dembski on His Rocky and Rewarding Journey

NFTs The Reinvention of Property

Why Influence Matters More Than People Realize
How do we go from defending ourselves to persuading others?
How Does Worldview Differ From Cultural Environment?
Confusion about the difference between worldview and cultural environment has been a stumbling block for Christian apologetics
Is Truth Just What Your Peers Will Let You Get Away With Saying?
Sound, logical thinking is NOT the norm. Many people, anxious to remain in good standing with leaders and influencers, live quite happily with incoherence and inconsistencies
What Makes Arguments for God Convincing — or Not
Is truth enough? A look at the unfulfilled promise of Christian apologetics
William Dembski: Gauging the Success of Intelligent Design

The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith
Exploring the Ultimate Questions About Life and the Cosmos
James Tour Interviews William Dembski, Pt. 2

James Tour Interviews William Dembski, Pt. 1

Here’s a Terrific Video Featuring Myth of AI Author Erik Larson
Larson, an AI professional, explains why the popular noise we hear about AI “taking over” is hype
Why Computers Will Likely Never Perform Abductive Inferences
As Erik Larson points out in The Myth of Artificial Intelligence, what computers “know” must be painstakingly programmed
Are We Spiritual Machines? Are We Machines at All?
Inventor Ray Kurzweil proposed in 1999 that within the next thirty years we will upload ourselves into computers as virtual persons, programs on machines
A Critical Look at the Myth of “Deep Learning”
“Deep learning” is as misnamed a computational technique as exists.
Artificial Intelligence Understands by Not Understanding
The secret to writing a program for a sympathetic chatbot is surprisingly simple…
Automated Driving and Other Failures of AI
How would autonomous cars manage in an environment where eye contact with other drivers is important?
Bill Dembski Teases the 2021 Dallas ID Conference

How is the Intelligent Design Movement Doing?

Intelligent Evolution
How Alfred Russel Wallace's World of Life Challenged Darwinism
Bill Dembski on a DYI Decentralized Currency

The Patristic Understanding of Creation
An Anthology of Writings from the Church Fathers on Creation and Design
Bill Dembski on the AI Boogeyman, and the Real AI Danger

The Design of Life
Discovering Signs of Intelligence in Biological Systems
Debating Darwin’s Doubt
A Scientific Controversy that Can No Longer Be Denied
William Dembski on the Gilmore & Glahn Show, pt. 4
