The AntiEvolutionists: William A. Dembski

Dembski's home pages

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• Anti-Darwinian Commentary
• Chronology
• Complexity- Specification
• Complex Specified Information
• The Design Inference
• Evolutionary Algorithms
• The Explanatory Filter
• Intelligent Design Activism
• Intelligent Design, the book
• Mere Creation
• Michael Polanyi Center
• Naturalism vs. Supernaturalism
• No Free Lunch
• Specified Complexity
• Theology

The Design Inference

 

• THE DESIGN INFERENCE : ELIMINATING CHANCE THROUGH SMALL PROBABILITIES by William A. Dembski. Book published by Cambridge University Press concerning detecting design and agency.
  Reviews
  • Review by Ellery Eells, appearing in Philosophical Books.
  • Elliott Sober, Branden Fitelson, and Christopher Stephens's review, How Not to Detect Design.
    Dembski's commentary

     

    • William Dembski's Chance of the Gaps essay.

       

    • 2000/11: Summary of talk titled "Another Way To Detect Design" given by William A. Dembski at the 2000 Yale ID conference.
  • Reports of the National Center for Science Education, March/April 1999, by Wesley R. Elsberry. Similar online version.
  • Review by Eli Chiprout.
  • Online review by Massimo Pigliucci.
  • 1999/05/01: Sam Northshield reviews "The Design Inference: Eliminating Chance Through Small Probabilities" by William A. Dembski. The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 106 No. 5; p. 486. 62 words. Buy it from Northernlight.com or view it here.

     

    • Mark Vuletic's critique of Pigliucci's review.
  • Rabi Gupta's review. Gupta was enthused about how TDI would discomfit skeptics of the paranormal.

   

  Debates
  • 2001/06/17: William A. Dembski's Order and Design: Philosophical Issues presentation at the CTNS/AAAS "Interpreting Evolution" conference held at Haverford College (draft video form).
  • 2001/06/17: Wesley R. Elsberry's Order and Design: Philosophical Issues presentation at the CTNS/AAAS "Interpreting Evolution" conference held at Haverford College (draft video form). (Readers might find the Powerpoint presentation useful as an adjunct to the video.)

   

  Commentary
  • 2001/03: Taner Edis's Darwin in Mind article from the Skeptical Inquirer. It critiques ideas from Dembski's "The Design Inference" and "Intelligent Design".
  • Mark Perakh's very thorough essay on Dembski's ideas, primarily "design inference" related.
  • 2001/11/09-11: Matt Young's "Intelligent Design Is Neither" paper presented at the conference Science and Religion: Are They Compatible? Atlanta, Georgia, November 9-11, 2001.
  • 2000/11/06: Richard Wein's Wrongly Inferred Design.
  • 2000/11: Larry Arnhart, Michael Behe, and William Dembski discuss ID and design inferences in Conservatives, Darwin & Design: An Exchange, in the November 2000 issue of "First Things".
  • 2000/09/30: What Does "Intelligent Agency by Proxy" Do For the Design Inference? by Wesley R. Elsberry. A response to EXPLAINING SPECIFIED COMPLEXITY by W.A. Dembski.
  • 2000/07: Alan G. Padgett's Creation By Design, article in Christianity Today, July/August 2000.
  • 2000: Massimo Pigliucci's article, Design Yes, Intelligent No: A Critique of Intelligent Design Theory and Neo-Creationism.
  • Explaining Functional Complexity in Nature: Do the Life Sciences need a Theory of Intelligent Design? by Loren A. King.
  • Zeus Thibault on origination of CSI and genetic instantiation
  • Wesley Elsberry on specification for the TSP
  • Zeus Thibault on RNA SELEX experiments as empirical disproof of Dembski's "law of conservation of CSI"
  • 1998/11/20: Rabi Gupta's comments on Dembski's "The Design Inference" as a support for claims involving the paranormal.
  • 1999/12/08: Famous people who use Macintosh computers, references Dembski's "The Design Inference".

   

• Another Way to Detect Design? A response to Sober's critical review.
  Commentary

   

  • Critique of Detecting Design by Wesley R. Elsberry.

     

  • 1998/10: Creationism on the rise? By Marty Rudin, commentary on Dembski's "The Design Inference". See also this page with commentary by Rudin.