Quotes by William A. Dembski

About William A. Dembski:

William Albert "Bill" Dembski is an American mathematician, philosopher and theologian. A proponent of intelligent design (ID), specifically the concept of specified complexity, he serves as of 2013[update] as a senior fellow of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture (CSC). In 2012, he taught as the Phillip E. Johnson Research Professor of Science and Culture at the Southern Evangelical Seminary in Matthews, North Carolina near Charlotte.
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The wrong people will do everything in their power to guarantee that the wrong political climate will continue. It seems, then, that the wrong people ensure the wrong political climate and the wrong political climate ensures the wrong people. How the...

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The atheist is cheating whenever he makes a moral judgment, acting as though it has an objective reference, when his philosophy in fact precludes it.

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Wrong people are wrong not because of their faults but because of their presumed virtues.

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Even with the right political climate, would the wrong people refrain from doing the wrong thing?

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Without a unified political climate of opinion, there is little or no political profit in doing the right thing.

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If you have no authority to legislate my freedoms, then I'm truly free, at least from you.

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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 willfull...

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Natural selection certainly operates. It explains how bacteria will gain antibiotic resistance; it will explain how insects get insecticide resistance, but it doesn't explain how you get bacteria or insects in the first place.

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As a biblical inerrantist, I believe that what the Bible teaches is true and bow to the text, including its teaching about the Flood and its universality.

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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 ...

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is a radical skeptic, insisting, in the best Socratic tradition, that everything be put on the table for examination. By contrast, most skeptics opposed to him are selective skeptics, applying their skepticism to the things they dislike (notably reli...

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Author Bio

  • NameWilliam A. Dembski
  • DescriptionAmerican intelligent design advocate
  • BornJuly 18, 1960
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionMathematician; Theologian