William A. Dembski Quotes

A collection of quotes by William A. Dembski.

William A. Dembski is a prominent American mathematician, philosopher, and theologian. He is best known for his work in the field of intelligent design, advocating for the idea that certain features of the universe and living organisms are best explained by an intelligent cause rather than purely naturalistic processes. Dembski has authored numerous books and articles on the subject, engaging in debates and discussions on the intersection of science, philosophy, and religion. His contributions have made a significant impact on the ongoing dialogue surrounding the origins and complexity of life.

What I propose, then, is a strategy for interrogating the Da

What I propose, then, is a strategy for interrogating the Darwinists to, as it were, squeeze the truth out of them.

William A. Dembski

Truth Strategy

I think the opportunity to deal with students and getting th

I think the opportunity to deal with students and getting them properly oriented on science and theology and the relation between those is going to be important because science has been such an instrument used by the materialists to undermine the Christian faith and religious belief generally.

William A. Dembski

Science Faith Belief Opportunity

Scientists rightly resist invoking the supernatural in scien

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.

William A. Dembski

Chance Science Evolution Ignorance Supernatural Coincidence Biology Darwinism Serendipity God Of The Gaps

Constrained optimization is the art of compromise between co

Constrained optimization is the art of compromise between conflicting objectives. This is what design is all about. To find fault with biological design - as Stephen Jay Gould regularly does - because it misses some idealized optimum is therefore gratuitous. Not knowing the objectives of the designer, Gould is in no position to say whether the designer has proposed a faulty compromise among those objectives.

William A. Dembski

Science Perfection Intelligent Design Balance Biology Id Optimisation Optimization Stephen Jay Gould

Whenever explaining an event, we must choose from three comp

Whenever explaining an event, we must choose from three competing modes of explanation. These are regularity, chance, and design... To attribute an event to design is to say that it cannot reasonably be referred to either regularity or chance.

William A. Dembski

Science Intelligent Design Biology Id

The fundamental claim of intelligent design is straightforwa

The fundamental claim of intelligent design is straightforward and easily intelligible: namely, there are natural systems that cannot be adequately explained in terms of undirected natural forces and that exhibit features which in any other circumstance we would attribute to intelligence.

William A. Dembski

Science Intelligent Design Biology