Information & Life: James Tour Interviews William Dembski

Intelligent Design the Future

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

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🗓️ 3 November 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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What is information? How does it run the show in biology? In anticipation of a new updated second edition of his classic book The Design Inference, out this month, today’s ID the Future from the vault features Rice University synthetic organic chemist James Tour and intelligent design pioneer William Dembski discussing information theory, information as a meaningful reduction of possibilities, Shannon information versus specified information, and how natural selection has come to function as a God substitute for many scientists, despite the lack of evidence. This is Part 1 of a two-part conversation.

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0:00.0	I. D. The Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
0:12.4	What kind of problem does information pose to materialistic theories of the origin of life or of the evolution of new species?
0:21.0	And to what extent will evolutionary theorists go to deny that it poses a problem?
0:27.9	Hello, I'm Tom Gilson and today on ID the future we hear a conversation between Dr. James Tour, synthetic chemist from
0:36.8	Rice University speaking with Dr. William Devsky, holder of multiple advanced degrees, on the information problem in life.
0:47.8	This is the first part of a two-part conversation we're going to present to you used by permission originally presented at
0:55.8	Dr. Tours science and faith podcast.
1:01.0	Let me introduce my guest today.
1:03.0	Bill Dembski is a mathematician, philosopher, and theologian.
1:08.0	Bill completed an undergraduate degree in psychology in 1981 at the University of Illinois, Chicago,
1:15.5	a master's degree in statistics in 83 at the University of Illinois Chicago,
1:20.9	a master's degree in mathematics in 1985 at the University of Chicago, a
1:26.2	master's degree in philosophy in 1993 at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and then he completed two PhDs, one in mathematics in 1988 at the
1:37.7	University of Chicago and a PhD in philosophy in 1996 at the University of Illinois
1:42.4	in Chicago.
1:43.6	And if this wasn't sufficient, he's got also
1:46.6	a master of divinity in theology in 1996
1:50.0	from Princeton theologicalological Seminary.
1:52.6	Bill has worked at several places,
1:55.1	including the Discovery Institute Center for Science and Culture.
1:59.2	He was a Philip V. Johnson Research
2:00.8	Professor of Science and Culture at Southern Evangelical Seminary in Matthews,
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