William Dembski on Why Intelligent Design Matters

Intelligent Design the Future

Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture

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

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🗓️ 12 July 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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On this ID the Future from the archive, intelligent design pioneer William Dembski unpacks one of his chapters in The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith: Exploring the Ultimate Questions about Life and the Cosmos, which Dembski co-edited with Joseph Holden and episode host Casey Luskin. Dembski discusses why intelligent design better explains the latest scientific evidence better than blind material processes can. He also talks about ID's cultural implications. Source

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0:00.0	I. D. The Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
0:12.4	Does intelligent design matter and why? I'm Casey Laskin and today I have on the show Dr.
0:18.0	William Damsky, a member of Discovery Institute's Board of Directors and one of the original Senior Fellows of Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture.
0:26.0	He holds two PhDs, one in philosophy from the University of Illinois, Chicago, another in math from the University of Chicago, as well as a Masters of Divinity
0:35.7	from Princeton Theological Seminary.
0:38.0	He has written many books that ID the future listeners are aware of, including seminal ID books like the design inference or
0:44.4	intelligence design, the bridge between science and theology, design revolution, which I read
0:49.4	when I was a student, Bill, and had a big impact on my understanding of ID. And then some of your other work,
0:54.7	No Free Lunch, being as communion, and you've done quite a bit of research with the Evolutionary
0:58.9	Informatics Lab exploring how information is necessary to build new complex features.
1:04.0	So we're continuing our conversation today about a book that you have co-edited along with myself and Joseph Holden,
1:11.0	titled The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith,
1:14.2	exploring the ultimate questions about life in the Cosmos.
1:17.4	It came out in October of 2021, and certainly I hope that our listeners will check it out.
1:22.8	It has contributions from leading ID scientists,
1:25.8	including not just Dr. Dembski, but also folks
1:28.4	like Stephen Meyer, Jonathan Wells, Michael Bihy, Douglas
1:32.3	Acts, Bruce Gordon, Michael Agnor, Giamma Gonzales, Walter Bradley,
1:36.8	Robert Marks, Brian Miller, I mean the list just goes on and on.
1:39.8	It's a very ambitious book.
1:41.6	It was a lot of fun to work on this with you, Bill, and I'm really pleased with how it came out.
1:45.4	Great to be with you, Casey. Yeah, it was a fun project and so nice to see how it all came together.
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