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<> The
Rise and Fall of Baylor University’s Michael Polanyi Center. [posted 20dec07]
With the encouragement of then President Robert Sloan, I founded the Michael
Polanyi Center at Baylor University in the fall of 1999 as a think-tank for
design theoretic research. In the fall of 2000, under pressure from Darwinists,
the university shut the center down. Here is that history. The Michael Polanyi
Center was the first ID research center at a major university.
2007
<> The Design of Life. [posted
6dec07] The definitive book on intelligent design coauthored by William Dembski
and Jonathan Wells.
<> Ayala’s
Potemkin Village. [posted 26sep07] Review of Francisco Ayala’s Darwin’s Gift to Science and Religion,
to appear in Science & Theology.
<> The
Jesus Tomb Math. [posted 15jul07] Paper co-authored with Robert
J. Marks II for the forthcoming anthology titled Buried Hopes or Risen Savior: The Search for Jesus’ Tomb, edited by
Charles Quarles (B&H Publishing Group). For the supporting math go to www.jesustombmath.org.
<> Conservation
of Information in Search: Measuring the Cost of Success. [posted 5jun07]
Paper currently under review on the mathematical foundations of intelligent
design coauthored with Robert
J. Marks II. This paper develops a general method for critiquing inflated
claims about the power of evolutionary computing.
<> Active
Information in Evolutionary Search. [posted 5jun07] Paper currently under
review on the mathematical foundations of intelligent design coauthored with Robert J. Marks
II. This paper critiques Olle Häggström’s 2007 article in Biology and Philosophy titled “Intelligent Design and
the NFL Theorems.”
<> Unacknowledged
Information Costs in Evolutionary Computing: A Case Study on the Evolution of
Nucleotide Binding Sites. [posted 5jun07] Paper currently under review on
the mathematical foundations of intelligent design coauthored with Robert
J. Marks II. This paper critiques Thomas Schneider’s 2000 article in Nucleic Acids Research titled “Evolution of
Biological Information.”
2006
<> The
Reach of the Cross. [posted 19Oct06] Chapel message delivered at
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary on October 19, 2006.
<> Preface
to Paperback Edition of No Free Lunch.
[posted 26Jun06] Five year after its publication, my book No Free Lunch is coming out in paperback. Here is the new preface I
was asked to write for it.
<> Evolution
as Alchemy. [posted 23Jun06] An essay on how prior metaphysical commitments
account for the scientific community's overweening confidence in evolutionary
theorizing. For the html version, go here.
<> Christian
Theodicy in Light of Genesis and Modern Science. [originally posted
20Apr06; expanded version (2.0) posted 12May06] An essay that, by employing
Newcomb’s paradox, traces natural evil to human sin in a world where natural
evil nonetheless predates humans.
<> The
Conservation of Information: Measuring the Cost of Successful Search.
[posted 4May06] Contribution to ongoing project on the mathematical foundations
of intelligent design.
2005
<> Hume,
Reid, and Signs of Intelligence. [posted 29Nov05] Chapter 32 of The Design Revolution. This chapter shows
why design inferences depend fundamentally on recognizing signs of intelligence
and thus follow irrespectively of prior knowledge of the designer’s
characteristics or intentions.
<> The
Vise Strategy: Squeezing the Truth out of Darwinists. [posted 8Nov05;
written 11May05] Document prepared to assist the Thomas More Law Center in
interrogating the ACLU’s expert witnesses in the Dover case.
<> Fitness
among Competitive Agents. [posted 28Oct05] A note on some work by David
Fogel and David Wolpert in which they claim to find “free lunches” in
competitive environments.
<> Dover
Expert Witness Report. [posted 30Sep05; completed 29Mar05] William
Dembski’s expert witness report for the Dover ID case (the trial of which began
26Sep05).
<> Dover
Expert Witness Rebuttal. [posted 30Sep05; completed 14May05] William
Dembski’s rebuttal of the reports by expert witnesses on the other side of the
Dover ID case, specifically, Barbara Forrest, Robert Pennock, John Haught,
Kevin Padian, and Kenneth Miller.
<> A
Primer on Probability for Design Inferences. [28Sep05] The bare bones of
what is needed to understand the probability behind Fisherian and Bayesian
design inferences.
<> Design
by Elimination vs. Design by Comparison. [28Sep05] Chapter 33 of The Design Revolution. This chapter
demonstrates the inadequacy of a purely Bayesian/likelihood approach to drawing
design inferences.
<> Technological
Evolution Prize Competition -- ANNOUNCEMENT. [19Sep05] What is the evidence
for the power of trial-and-error tinkering to bring about innovations in
technological evolution?
<> Open Letter to
George Will. [25Aug05] Response to George Will’s criticisms of ID.
<> Why
President Bush Got It Right about Intelligent Design. [4Aug05] Brief
commentary on President Bush’s recent remarks about the teaching of intelligent
design.
<> Jeffrey
Shallit I and Jeffrey Shallit II.
[8Jul05] My end of a sharp exchange with Jeff Shallit. Jeff was a teacher of
mine at the University of Chicago in the 1980s. I took away some useful
insights from his course on computational number theory. I’ve valued him as a
critic even though my public denunications of him have been a bit over the top.
Perhaps some day we will be able to put our differences on the table
dispassionately.
<> In
Defense of Intelligent Design. [30Jun05] Contribution to the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Religion and Science,
edited by Philip Clayton.
<> Specification:
The Pattern That Signifies Intelligence. [23Jun05] Latest installment in
the Mathematical Foundations of Intelligent Design.
<> Allen
Orr in the New Yorker -- A Response.
[28May05] William Dembski’s response to Allen Orr’s widely cited New Yorker attack against intelligent
design.
<> Denis
Alexander on ID. [19May05] A brief response to Alexander’s review of The Design Revolution.
<> The
Vise Strategy I and The Vise Strategy
II. [11May05] What’s after “the wedge.”
<> Why Joe
Schmoe Doesn’t Buy Evolution. [21Apr05] A beautiful example of why a
reflective layperson, when confronted with the inflated claims of
evolutionists, is unlikely to be persuaded.
<> Laughlin
on Evolution by Natural Selection. [16Apr05] Short note with some
interesting links relating to Robert Laughlin’s views on evolution.
<> Intelligent
Design: Yesterday's Orthodoxy, Today's Heresy. [3Apr05] Transcription of a
talk given at Grace Valley Community Center in Davis, California on 17 January
2004.
<> The
Truth about How I Got into ID. [1Apr05] A bit of April fools merriment
<> Open
Letter to Robert Holub. [31Mar05] Response to Holub, a dean at UCal
Berkeley, who had written that ID is “a blight on our intellectual landscape.”
<> Searching
Large Spaces: Displacement and the No Free Lunch Regress. [3Mar05] Third
installment in the Mathematical Foundations of Intelligent Design. The
two previous installments were stage setting. This one moves the ball forward.
<> Intelligent
Design's Contribution to the Debate over Evolution: A Reply to Henry Morris.
[1Feb05] A reply to Henry Morris's critique of ID in his review of The
Design Revolution. This review, titled "The Design Revelation,"
appeared in Back to Genesis (no. 194, February 2005).
2004
<> Uniform
Probability. [10Dec04] Second installment in a set of seven planned
technical articles under the rubric Mathematical Foundations of Intelligent
Design. This is a slightly updated and revised version of an article that
appeared in the Journal of Theoretical Probability in 1990.
<> Conway
Morris's Solution [9Dec04] Review that appeared in Books & Culture
of Simon Conway Morris's book Life's Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely
Universe (Cambridge, 2003).
<> Unintelligent
Evolution. [9Dec04] Talk presented at the Society of Christian Philosophers
subsection at the American Academy of Religion meeting, with Sahotra Sarkar as
respondent, San Antonio, 22 November 2004.
<> Information
as a Measure of Variation. [v. 3.0, posted 12Aug04; v. 2.0, posted
23July04; originally posted 7July04] First installment in a set of seven
planned technical articles under the rubric Mathematical Foundations of
Intelligent Design.
<> Reflections
on Human Origins. [version 2.0, posted 4Aug04; originally posted 21June04]
Section from a forthcoming book.
<> The
Gift of Purpose. [31May04] Short reflection on the nature of purpose.
<> Dealing
with the Backlash against Intelligent Design. [14Apr04] Dr. Dembski's
contribution to the forthcoming Phillip Johnson Festschrift Volume, edited by
William Dembski.
<> Five
Questions Evolutionists Would Rather Dodge. [14Apr04] A popular piece
commissioned by Citizen Magazine.
<> Darwin's
Meltdown. [3Apr04] World Magazine commissioned William Dembski to
enlist several proponents of intelligent design to speculate about the state of
Darwinism at the 100th anniversary of the Scopes trial in 2025. Phillip
Johnson, Jonathan Wells, Jeffrey Schwartz, and William Dembski each wrote
articles.
<> Society
for the Advancement of Real Science Denounces Intelligent Design. [26Feb04]
Denunciations of Intelligent Design by the American Association for the
Advancement of Science (see here), the
American Institute of Physics (see here and here), and the
Society for Neuroscience (see here)
have been far too tame. Finally, the Society for the Advancement of Real
Science has released a denunciation worthy of the menace that is Intelligent
Design. [Unfortunately, because reality is nearly as extreme as this parody,
many readers initially think that this "press release" is genuine.]
<> Irreducible
Complexity Revisited. [14Jan04] Update on where the debate over irreducible
complexity is eight years after the publication of Michael Behe's book Darwin's
Black Box.
<> Ten
Questions to Ask Your Biology Teacher about Design. [14Jan04]
2003
<> Response
to Paul Gross. [1Dec03] Paul Gross's September 2003 criticism of
intelligent design in the National Association of Scholar's Science Insights
(see here)
garnered numerous responses from both friends and foes of intelligent design in
the November issue of Science Insights (see here).
The friends of intelligent design who responded to Gross included David
Berlinski, Phillip Johnson, Jonathan Wells, Michael Behe, John West (on behalf
of Discovery Institute), Robert Koons, Roland Hirsch, and William Dembski. The
latter's response is included here.
<> Biology
in the Subjunctive Mood: A Response to Nicholas Matzke. [11Nov03] A
response to Nicholas Matzke's article posted on the Talk Reason website titled
"Evolution in (Brownian) Space: A Model for the Origin of the Bacterial
Flagellum."
<> Gauging
Intelligent Design's Success. [11Nov03] Talk presented at the Ian Ramsey
Centre, Oxford, October 30, 2003.
<> Response
to Eugenie Scott's Letter to Texas Board of Education. [10Oct03] In her
letter of September 30, 2003 to the Texas Board of Education, Eugenie Scott
claimed that intelligent design research is not properly peer-reviewed and
singled out William Dembski's monograph The Design Inference as a case
in point. William Dembski's letter of October 10, 2003 to the Texas Board of
Education refutes her charges.
<> Transcendence.
[6Oct03] Article entry for IVP's forthcoming New Dictionary of Christian
Apologetics.
<> Endorsements
for The Design Revolution. [27Sep03] The endorsements for William
Dembski's forthcoming book with InterVarsity as they will be appearing on the
book cover and the first few pages.
<> Infinite
Universe or Intelligent Design? [27Sep03] Paper delivered at 2003
Accelerating Change Conference at Stanford University, 13 September 2003 <http://www.accelerating.org/acc2003/schedule.htm>.
<> Paul
Gross's Dilemma. [22Sep03] An open letter to the National Association of
Scholars in response to Paul Gross's article on intelligent design in the NAS's
September 2003 issue of Science Insights <http://www.nas.org/publications/sci_newslist/7_4/sci_insght74.pdf>.
<> Testimony
of William Dembski before Texas State Board of Education. [10Sep03] Point
at issue was the accuracy of high school biology textbooks in presenting
evolutionary theory. Testimonies were strictly limited to three minutes.
<> ID
FAQ presented by William Dembski to Texas State Board of Education.
[10Sep03] Three frequently asked questions: (1) What is ID? (2) Is it peer
reviewed? (3) What is its research program?
<> Uncommon
Dissent: Intellectuals Who Find Darwinism Unconvincing. [revised
4Sep03; originally posted 22July03] Table of contents, introduction, and list
of contributors to edited collection by William Dembski, due out with
Intercollegiate Studies Institute early spring 2004. Revised in light of Andrea
Bottaro's response at www.talkdesign.org.
<> The
Design Revolution: Answering the Toughest Questions about Intelligent Design.
[30Aug03] Table of contents, preface, and acknowledgments to book by William
Dembski, due out with InterVarsity Press January 2004. Includes foreword by
Charles Colson and endorsement by Senator Rick Santorum.
<> Intelligent
Design. [28Aug03] Entry to Lindsay Jones's Encyclopedia of Religion,
2nd edition, forthcoming with Macmillan.
<> Does
the Design Argument Show There Is a God? [28Aug03] Entry to Ted Cabal's Apologetics
Study Bible, forthcoming with Broadman & Holman.
<> "Algorithm,"
"Algorithmic Complexity," "Boundary Conditions,"
"Dissipative Structures," and "Teleological Argument."
[28Aug03] Five entries in the Macmillan Encyclopedia of Science and Religion,
edited by Wentzel van Huyssteen, published spring 2003.
<> Making
the Task of Theodicy Impossible? Intelligent Design and the Problem of Evil.
[4Apr03] Paper delivered under the auspices of the Center for Theology and the
Natural Sciences (CTNS) at the Graduate Theological Union (GTU) in Berkeley, 1
April 2003.
<> Challenging
Materialism's "Chokehold" on Neuroscience. [27Feb03] Book review
for First Things of The Mind and the Brain: Neuroplasticity and the
Power of Mental Force, by Jeffrey Schwartz and Sharon Begley.
HarperCollins. 432 pp. Book available for purchase online here.
<> Letter
in response to "The Virtue of Hate" by Meir Soloveichik.
[27Feb03] Soloveichik's article appeared in the February 2003 issue of First
Things and is available here.
<> Still
Spinning Just Fine: A Response to Ken Miller. [17Feb03] William Dembski
responds to Kenneth Miller's article "The Flagellum Unspun: The Collapse
of 'Irreducible Complexity'." This article, which will be appearing in a
collection that William Dembski is editing with Michael Ruse, is available on
the web here.
2002
<> Evolution's
Logic of Credulity: An Unfettered Response to Allen Orr. The Boston
Review gave William Dembski 1000 words to respond to Allen Orr's 6000-word
book review of No Free Lunch (for Dembski's 1000-word response see
"Sheer vs. Real Possibilities" below). A fuller response to Orr's
review was required. Here it is.
<> Becoming
a Disciplined Science: Prospects, Pitfalls, and Reality Check for ID.
Keynote address delivered at RAPID
Conference (Research and Progress in Intelligent Design),
Biola University, La Mirada, California, 25 October 2002.
<> Elliott
Sober's Independent Evidence Requirement for Design. A brief reply to
Elliott Sober's main line of attack against the legitimacy of design within
biology. Dr. Dembski plans to extend this reply.
<> The
Logical Underpinnings of Intelligent Design. Dr. Dembski's contribution to Debating
Design: From Darwin to DNA (Cambridge University Press, to appear 2003,
co-edited with Michael Ruse).
<> Evolutionary
Logic. This bit of frivolity adapts and extends Paul Dunmore's "The
Uses of Fallacy," New Zealand Mathematics Magazine, vol. 7, 1970.
<> Naturalism's
Argument from Invincible Ignorance: A Response to Howard Van Till. Howard
Van Till's review of Dr. Dembski's book No Free Lunch is available at
the AAAS Evolution Resources page -- http://www.aaas.org/spp/dser/evolution/perspectives/default.htm.
The actual review is available as a pdf file at http://www.aaas.org/spp/dser/evolution/perspectives/vantillecoli.pdf.
Dr. Dembski responds to Van Till's review here.
<> If
Only Darwinists Scrutinized Their Own Work as Closely: A Response to
"Erik". An Internet persona and critic of intelligent design
known as "Erik" reviewed those aspects of Dr. Dembski's book No
Free Lunch dealing with the Law of Conservation of Information and
specificational resources. Erik's review is titled "On Dembski's Law of
Conservation of Information" and is available at http://www.talkreason.org/articles/dembski_LCI.pdf.
Dr. Dembski responds to the review here.
<> Sheer
vs. Real Possibilities: A Response to Allen Orr. Allen Orr reviewed Dr.
Dembski's book No Free Lunch in the Summer 2002 issue of the Boston
Review. Orr's review is available at http://bostonreview.mit.edu/BR27.3/orr.html.
The response below is at the request of the Boston Review and will be
appearing in a subsequent issue. Dembski was limited to 1000 words by the Boston
Review and plans a more extensive response to Orr in the future.
<> Addicted
to Caricatures: A Response to Brian Charlesworth. The journal Nature
had Brian Charlesworth review Dr. Dembski's book No Free Lunch in its 11
July 2002 issue. The article is available at http://www.nature.com to
subscribers for free and to nonsubscribers for a fee.
<> Then and
Only Then: A Response to Mike Gene. Mike Gene is the pseudonym of a
biologist known and respected for his work on intelligent design. Dr. Dembski
disagrees with him sharply, however, over his views whether intelligent design
may at this time properly be taught in the public school science curriculum
(for his views see here
and here). The addendum
to Dr. Dembski's response is by Jonathan Wells.
<> Random
Predicate Logic I: A Probabilistic Approach to Vagueness. Regarding this
paper, Dr. Dembski writes: "This is an old paper, written twelve years ago,
that's been in cold storage ever since. I had always intended to get back to it
and apply the formalism it develops, but other projects kept getting in the
way. I finally decided to clean it up and get it into circulation, not only
because it provides a more powerful and ultimately, I believe, more fruitful
formalism than fuzzy logic, but also because I am eager to apply it to
confirmation theory, logical paradoxes, and, most importantly from my view, to
design-theoretic concepts. I want in particular to treat predicates that
attribute complexity, specified complexity, and design as random predicates and
see what fruit this reformulation will bear. Since Bart Kosko has shown that
fuzzy logic cannot be subsumed under Bayesian techniques, and since fuzzy logic
is strictly subsumable under random predicate logic, I intend, as it were, to
transcend Bayesian techniques by moving to a completely different formalism.
All of this, of course, constitutes a promissory note and will have to await
'Random Predicate Logic II: Applications and Interpretations'. The present
paper merely lays out the basic formalism."
<> Commentary
by William Dembski on Eugenie Scott and Glenn Branch's "Guest Viewpoint:
'Intelligent design' Not Accepted by Most Scientists" -- their article
appeared July 2nd on the website of the National School Boards Association .
<> The Primacy
of the First Person: Reply to Ray Kurzweil. Reply to Ray Kurzweil's
criticism of Dr. Dembski's essay "Kurzweil's Impoverished
Spirituality" in the book Are We Spiritual Machines?, edited by Jay
Richards and available online here.
This reply was made in the context of an ISCID reading discussion on that book
organized by Micah Sparacio (see http://www.iscid.org/arewespiritualmachines.php).
<> Skepticism's
Prospects for Unseating Intelligent Design. Talk delivered at CSICOP's
Fourth World Skeptics Conference in Burbank, California, 21 June 2002, at a
discussion titled "Evolution and Intelligent Design." The
participants included ID proponents William Dembski and Paul Nelson as well as
evolutionists Wesley Elsberry and Kenneth Miller. Massimo Pigliucci moderated
the discussion.
<> The
Fantasy Life of Richard Wein. A further response to Richard Wein.
<> Obsessively
Criticized but Scarcely Refuted: A Response to Richard Wein. A response to
Richard Wein's overly long and ill-conceived review of No Free Lunch.
Wein expended 37,000 words in his initial response and from comments on
talk.origins apparently plans to expand it still further.
<> Asking
the Tough Questions. A brief response to an exchange between Michael Ruse
and Jonathan Wells to appear in Research News in Science and Religion.
<> If
Not Natural Selection? A review of Steven Orzack and Elliott Sober's Adaptationism
and Optimality (CUP, 2001) to appear in Books & Culture.
<> Does
Evolution Even Have a Mechanism? Talk delivered at the American Museum of
Natural History, 23 April 2002 at a discussion titled "Evolution or
Intelligent Design?" The participants included ID proponents William A.
Dembski and Michael J. Behe as well as evolutionists Kenneth R. Miller and
Robert T. Pennock. Eugenie C. Scott moderated the discussion.
<> Moral
Darwinism: How We Became Hedonists. Foreword by William A. Dembski.
Available at Amazon.com.
<> Darwin's
Predictable Defenders: A Response to Massimo Pigliucci. A response to
"Design Yes, Intelligent No: A Critique of Intelligent Design Theory and
Neocreationism," by Massimo Pigliucci, Skeptical Inquirer (Sep/Oct
2001): 34-39. To appear in the Christian Research Journal.
<> MESA (Monotonic Evolutionary
Simulation Algorithm). A Java program by William Dembski, John Bracht, and
Micah Sparacio that models evolutionary searches and employs monotonic smooth
fitness gradients. Its aim is to determine the degree to which fitness
perturbation and variable coupling impede evolutionary searches. The link here
is to the ISCID website.
<> Response
to Walter Thorson. The March 2002 issue of Perspectives on Science and
Christian Faith was devoted to an extended article by Walter Thorson titled
"Legitimacy and Scope of 'Naturalism' in Science." William Dembski
was one of twelve respondents.
<> Edward
Kennedy -- Expert on Science? Statement by William Dembski on the
scientific status of intelligent design. Responds to Edward Kennedy's claim
that ID is not properly scientific.
<> Not
Taking Information Seriously Enough. Review of James E. Huchingson, Pandemonium
Tremendum: Chaos and Mystery in the Life of God (Cleveland: Pilgrim Press,
2001). Appeared in Princeton Theological Seminary Bulletin.
<> Detecting
Design in the Natural Sciences. Article commissioned for POISK (the
magazine of the Russian Academy of Science) and currently being translated into
Russian.
<> Robert
Pennock's Intelligent Design Creationism and Its Critics. William
Dembski's press releases in response to the publication of this book. Integrity
is hard won and easily lost. For publishing William Dembski's work without his
knowledge or permission, Robert Pennock and MIT Press compromised their
integrity.
<> Refuted
Yet Again! This article is written in response to Matt Young's "How to
Evolve Specified Complexity by Natural Means." Both pieces appeared on
Metanexus (http://www.metanexus.net).
<> No Free Lunch: Why
Specified Complexity Cannot Be Purchased without Intelligence. Jacket
endorsements for William Dembski's most important book to date. Available at Barnes
& Noble for $28.
2001
<> ISCID. William Dembski, John
Bracht, and Micah Sparacio together founded the International Society for
Complexity, Information, and Design in December of 2001.
<> What
Have Butterflies Got to Do with Darwin? Review of Bernard d’Abrera, The
Concise Atlas of Butterflies of the World (London: Hill House, 2001).
<> ID
as a Theory of Technological Evolution. William Dembski delivered this
paper as a lecture at the June 2001 AAAS conference at Haverford College. The
conference title was Interpreting Evolution. His lecture was part of a
session on intelligent design in which he was paired with Wesley Elsberry
(hence the reference to him in the paper). The talk was reprinted on Metanexus
(http://www.metanexus.net).
<> The
Pragmatic Nature of Mathematical Inquiry. This article appeared in Mathematics
in a Postmodern Age (Eerdmans, 2001), edited by Rossell Howell and
James Bradley. It's approach is similar to the experimental approach to
mathematics outlined in Gregory Chaitin's The
Limits of Mathematics.
<> Is
Intelligent Design a Form of Natural Theology? Examines the relation
between ID and natural theology. First appeared on Metanexus
(http://www.metanexus.net).
<> How
Blind Is the Watchmaker. William Dembski's foreword to Neil Broom's
book. Available at Amazon.com.
<> Signs
of Intelligence: Understanding Intelligent Design (Amazon.com link).
William Dembski's most accessible book. An expanded version of a Touchstone
Magazine special issue on intelligent design.
<> Unapologetic
Apologetics: Meeting the Challenges of Theological Studies (Amazon.com
link). Co-edited with Jay Richards.
2000
<> Science
and Evidence for Design in the Universe (Amazon.com link). Co-authored
with Michael Behe and Stephen Meyer.
<> Intelligent
Design Coming Clean. Explains why intelligent design is a "big
tent." This article first appeared on Metanexus
(http://www.metanexus.net).
<> The
Evidential Collapse of Darwinism [21Oct00] Amazon.com review of Jonathan
Wells's Icons of Evolution.
<> Who's
Got the Magic? A response to Robert Pennock's false dichotomy that ID
forces one to choose between mechanism and magic. This article first appeared on
Metanexus (http://www.metanexus.net). It was reprinted without permission in
Robert Pennock's Intelligent Design Creationism and Its Critics.
<> The
Limits of Natural Teleology. Review of Robert Wright's Nonzero: The
Logic of Human Destiny. Appeared in August/September 2000 issue of First
Things.
<> The
Nature of Nature (Conference at Baylor, April 2000). Description and
schedule of historic conference. Organized by William Dembski and Bruce Gordon
through Baylor's erstwhile Michael Polanyi Center.
<> Disbelieving
Darwin--And Feeling No Shame! Why do people resist Darwin's theory? Because
it is deeply flawed or because they feel threatened? This article first
appeared on Metanexus (http://www.metanexus.net).
<> Because
It Works. That's Why! Review of The Concept of Probability in
Statistical Physics by Y.M. Guttmann (CUP, 1999). This article first
appeared in Books & Culture.
<> Intelligent
Design is not Optimal Design. Response to Francisco Ayala. This article
first appeared on Metanexus (http://www.metanexus.net).
<> What
Can We Reasonably Hope For? Invited contribution on the topic of science
and religion to First Things' Millennium Symposium, January 2000 issue.
1999
<> Are
We Spiritual Machines? A response to Ray Kurzweil's Age of Spiritual
Machines. This article first appeared in First Things.
<> The
Last Magic. A review of The Applicability of Mathematics as a
Philosophical Problem by Mark Steiner (Harvard University Press, 1999).
This review first appeared in Books & Culture.
<> Intelligent
Design: The Bridge Between Science and Theology. Jacket endorsements
for book. Available at Amazon.com.
1998 and before
<> The Design
Inference: Eliminating Chance through Small Probabilities. Endorsements
for book. Available at Amazon.com.
<> Mere
Creation: Science, Faith & Intelligent Design. Endorsements for
book. Available at Amazon.com.
<> Science
and Design. Popular piece on design detection. This article first appeared
in First Things.
<> Act
of Creation: Bridging Transcendence and Immanence. Talk presented at
Millstatt Forum, Strasbourg, France, 10 August 1998.
<> The
Intelligent Design Movement. Overview of ID movement as things stood
in March of 1998. Appeared in Fred Heeren's periodical Cosmic Pursuit.
<> Simpson (not
G. G.) and Gould (not Harold or Elliot). An analysis of the Simpsons
episode featuring Stephen Jay Gould.
<> Alchemy,
NK Boolean Style. A review of At Home in the Universe: The Search for
the Laws of Self Organization and Complexity by Stuart Kauffman (New York:
Oxford University Press, 1995).
<> Randomness
by Design. Dr. Dembski's first significant contribution to intelligent
design. This article appeared in the spring of 1991 in the philosophy journal Nous.
It has appeared elsewhere on the Internet, but in each case the formatting was
garbled and some content was lost. Dr. Dembski has therefore re-typeset the
article in TeX and made it available here. Many of the ideas about small
probability and specification are in this article in seminal form.
<> Uniform
Probability. This is a slightly updated and revised version (December 2004)
of an article that appeared in the Journal of Theoretical Probability in
1990.