William Dembski Teases an Updated Edition of an ID Classic

Intelligent Design the Future

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🗓️ 7 November 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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On this ID the Future, mathematician and philosopher William Dembski shares with host Eric Anderson about a revised and updated edition of Dembski’s pioneering 1998 Cambridge University Press book, The Design Inference. Dembski says he stands by that work and his early contributions to intelligent design theory, but adds that he has learned a lot more in the intervening years, particularly from his work with Robert J. Marks and Winston Ewert at the Evolutionary Informatics lab. Lessons from that and other work, Dembski explains, will enrich the new edition. What light do these design-detecting methods shed on modern evolutionary theory? Tune in as Dembski explains.

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0:00.0	I d the future a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
0:12.4	The game of chess was once considered a tranquil intellectual affair, played by
0:16.0	gentlemen in Victorian drawing rooms and making few inroads into the general
0:19.8	public's consciousness other than occasional flashes by outspoken chess personalities like Bobby Fisher and Gary Kasparov.
0:26.0	But no longer. Today online chess is enjoyed by millions of players around the world
0:31.0	and major over-the-board tournaments generate day-long commentary and
0:34.0	analyses from Grand Masters broadcasts live to tens of thousands in multiple languages.
0:38.1	Chess's new-found popularity is due in no small part to the game's promotion by reigning world champion,
0:44.1	Magnus Carlson, a Norwegian stupid grandmaster who has dominated the chess world for the past decade.
0:49.6	However, chess has reached into the general public's consciousness, reached a peak in late October
0:54.5	2022 and not necessarily in a positive way when media outlets around the world headlined the startling
1:00.4	news that American chess prodigy Hans Neiman had sued Carlson and several other parties for a hundred million dollars in United States federal district court.
1:08.0	What happened to bring chess to this point and what does it all have to do with intelligent design?
1:13.0	Hello, I'm Eric Anderson, and today I'm honored to be joined by Dr. William Dembski
1:17.0	to discuss this current dust up in the chess world and how it relates to his work.
1:21.0	Dembski is one of the key figures in the modern debate over
1:24.0	evolution and intelligent design with groundbreaking work on the design inference and the concept of complex
1:29.2	specified information. He is author or editor of more books than I can mention and holds multiple advanced degrees including in mathematics, physics, computer science, statistics, and philosophy.
1:40.0	Welcome, Bill.
1:41.0	Good to be with you, Eric. I think it's been about 20 years.
1:43.0	We've known each other.
1:44.0	Yeah, it's been a while.
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