Can AI Accurately Portray Intelligent Design?

Intelligent Design the Future

Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture

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

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🗓️ 28 July 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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How accurately do AI models like ChatGPT, Grok, and Bard portray the theory of intelligent design? Can large language models rise above the biases of sources like Wikipedia to help level the playing field for intelligent design? Today, host Andrew McDiarmid begins a conversation with mathematician and philosopher Dr. William Dembski to address the relationship between AI and ID. In recent years, Dr. Dembski has been putting LLMs through their paces to see if they can accurately and fairly discuss and portray intelligent design arguments and concepts. Here, Dembski discusses what he discovered as he used various methods to interrogate these complex algorithms. This is Part 1 of a two-part conversation. Look for Part 2 in a separate episode. Source

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0:00.0	ID, The Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
0:10.7	How accurately does AI portray the theory of intelligent design?
0:15.4	Will large language models and chat bots like chat GPT and groROC level the playing field for intelligent design?
0:22.4	Or will this emerging technology simply reinforce the same stereotypes and misconceptions about
0:28.3	intelligent design that have been around for decades?
0:31.7	Well, today I'm delighted to spend some time with mathematician and philosopher, Dr. William Dembski.
0:37.4	Dr. Dembski is a founding and senior fellow
0:39.8	with Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture and a distinguished fellow with the
0:44.6	Institute's Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence. He's a graduate of the
0:50.3	University of Illinois at Chicago, where he earned a bachelor's in psychology and a
0:55.0	doctorate in philosophy. He also received a doctorate in mathematics from the University of Chicago
1:00.7	in 1988, and a Master of Divinity degree from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1996.
1:07.8	He has held National Science Foundation graduate and postdoctoral fellowships.
1:12.8	Dr. Dembski has published in the peer-reviewed mathematics, engineering, biology, philosophy,
1:18.5	and theology literature.
1:20.4	He is the author or editor of more than 25 books, most recently a brand new edition of the
1:26.0	Design Inference, co-authored with Winston Ewart.
1:29.5	Dr. Damsky, welcome back to ID the Future.
1:31.9	Good to be with you, Andrew. My pleasure.
1:35.1	Yeah, so I'm kicking myself for not having had this discussion with you a bit sooner
1:38.9	because in 2023 and 2024, you were writing about putting AI and large language models like chat GPT
1:47.0	and Google's barred through their paces with regard to how they convey information about
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