William A. Dembski

Jan 10, 2025 | evolutionnews.org | William A. Dembski

Author’s note: Conservation of information is a big result of the intelligent design literature, even if to date it hasn’t gotten the attention it deserves. It quantifies the amount of information needed to increase the probability of finding a needle in a haystack so that the needle can actually be found.

Nov 6, 2024 | evolutionnews.org | William A. Dembski

Philosopher of biology Michael Ruse, a good friend and colleague of mine, died this past Friday, November 1, 2024. We found ourselves on opposite sides of how to explain biological origins. He took a pro Darwinian view, I took a pro intelligent design view. We published an anthology in 2004 with Cambridge University Press that featured Darwinists, intelligent design theorists, theistic evolutionists, and self-organizational theorists: Debating Design: From Darwin to DNA.

Oct 22, 2024 | evolutionnews.org | William A. Dembski

There’s no arguing about taste is a proverb with some truth. Who’s the better composer, Mozart or Beethoven? Who’s to say? I knew a rich Chicago woman fifty years ago who every week had lunch with a friend, at which they would argue the relative merits of these composers. I think she took the side of Beethoven. But now change the question: Who’s the better composer, Mozart or new-age artist Yanni? Nothing against Yanni, but they are in completely different leagues, with Mozart clearly the superior.

Sep 27, 2024 | evolutionnews.org | William A. Dembski

For over three decades, Jonathan Wells was to me a close friend and colleague. Born September 19, 1942, he died exactly 82 years later on his birthday. He and I coauthored an intelligent design textbook (The Design of Life: Discovering Signs of Intelligence in Biological Systems) as well as a spinoff from that book on the origin of life (How to Be an Intellectually Fulfilled Atheist — Or Not). Both books remain of current interest.

Jul 27, 2024 | evolutionnews.org | William A. Dembski

I might have ended my article here yesterday with the last section, leaving aside this appendix, thereby offering a pure critique of Lee Cronin’s Assembly Theory with no alternative to it. Nonetheless, despite its fatal defects, Assembly Theory does raise the prospect of what a successful theory of assembly might look like. As it is, one promising approach to such a theory exists in the work of Harvard Business School professors Carliss Baldwin and Kim Clark.