Bill Dembski Reflects on The Origins of a Classic

Intelligent Design the Future

Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Astronomy, Life Sciences, Science

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🗓️ 15 November 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Hailed as "sparklingly original" and an "important contribution", mathematician William Dembski's 1998 book The Design Inference gave the modern design hypothesis a firm empirical footing and quickly inspired demonization and dismissal from disgruntled Darwinists. Twenty-five years later, Dembski's arguments stand firm, and a second edition with fresh analysis and insight is now available to a new generation of truth seekers. On this ID The Future, physicist Brian Miller invites Dr. Dembski to take us back to the 1980s to tell us the story of how The Design Inference came to be. This is Part 1 of a two-part conversation. Look for Part 2 next!

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0:00.0	I d the future a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
0:12.4	Is it possible to empirically detect design and living systems?
0:17.0	Hi, I'm Brian Miller, your host for this episode of ID the Future.
0:22.0	Today I begin a two-part conversation with Dr William Dembski about
0:27.4	his landmark book, The Design Inference. First Edition was published in 1998.
0:33.1	A newly revised an expanded edition of the book
0:35.9	has been published by Discovery Institute Press Academic
0:40.0	to mark the volume's 25th anniversary.
0:43.2	A noted mathematician and philosopher, Dr. Dembski,
0:46.5	is a founding and senior fellow with Discovery Institute's
0:50.1	Center for Science and Culture, a Distinguished Fellow with the Institute's
0:55.0	Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence.
0:59.0	Dr. Dembski is a graduate of the University of Illinois
1:02.0	at Chicago, where he earned a bachelor's in
1:05.6	psychology and a doctorate in philosophy. He also received a doctorate in mathematics from the
1:11.8	University of Chicago in 1988 and a master divinity
1:16.6	from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1996.
1:20.9	He has held National Science Foundation graduate and postdoctoral fellowships.
1:25.0	Dr. Dembski is published in the peer-reviewed mathematics, engineering, biology, philosophy, and theology literature.
1:34.0	He is the author or editor of more than 25 books.
1:38.0	His most recent books relating to intelligent design
1:41.0	include 2014's being as communion and metaphysics of
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