“As far as design theorists are concerned, theistic evolution is American evangelicalism's ill-conceived accommodation to Darwinism .” DesignEvolutionConcernedIllDarwinismTheoristsAccommodations Author:William A. Dembski
“Design theorists are no friends of theistic evolution.” DesignEvolutionNo FriendsTheorists Author:William A. Dembski
“The scientific picture of the world championed since the Enlightenment is not just wrong but massively wrong. Indeed entire fields of inquiry, especially in the human sciences, will need to be rethought from the ground up in terms of intelligent design.” WorldNeedsHumansTermDesignFieldsEnlightenmentIntelligentInquiryIntelligent Design Book:Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science & Theology Source: Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science & Theology
“You have to understand, in the current academic climate, Intelligent Design is like leprosy or heresy in times past. To be tagged as an ID supporter is to become an academic pariah, and this holds even at so-called Christian institutions that place a premium on respectability at the expense of truth and the offense of the Gospel.” ChristianPastDesignIntelligentInstitutionsClimateCurrentsExpensesAcademicOffenseSupporterHeresyRespectabilityPremiumIntelligent DesignTimes PastPariahsLeprosyTagged Author:William A. Dembski
“The fundamental claim of intelligent design is straightforward and easily intelligible: namely, there are natural systems that cannot be adequately explained in terms of undirected natural forces and that exhibit features which in any other circumstance we would attribute to intelligence.” ForceTermNaturalDesignCircumstancesClaimsIntelligentFundamentalsFeaturesAttributesStraightforwardExhibitsIntelligent Design Book:The Design Revolution: Answering the Toughest Questions about Intelligent Design Source: The Design Revolution: Answering the Toughest Questions about Intelligent Design
“I believe God created the world for a purpose. The Designer of intelligent design is, ultimately, the Christian God.” WorldBelieveChristianPurposeReligionI BelieveAtheismDesignIntelligentDesignerBelieve In GodIntelligent DesignChristian God Author:William A. Dembski
“Constrained optimization is the art of compromise between conflicting objectives. This is what design is all about. To find fault with biological design - as Stephen Jay Gould regularly does - because it misses some idealized optimum is therefore gratuitous. Not knowing the objectives of the designer, Gould is in no position to say whether the designer has proposed a faulty compromise among those objectives.” DoeArtKnowingMissingDesignPositionBalanceFaultsObjectivesCompromiseDesignerNot KnowingOptimumOptimizationJay Gould Author:William A. Dembski
“Intelligent Design opens the whole possibility of us being created in the image of a benevolent God.” WholeDesignPossibilityIntelligentBenevolentIntelligent Design Author:William A. Dembski
“Intelligent design is just the Logos theology of John's Gospel restated in the idiom of information theory.” InformationDesignTheoryIntelligentTheologyLogosIntelligent DesignIdiom Author:William A. Dembski
“Give us detailed, testable, mechanistic accounts for the origin of life, the origin of the genetic code, the origin of ubiquitous bio macromolecules and assemblages like the ribosome, and the origin of molecular machines like the bacterial flagellum, and intelligent design will die a quick and painless death.” GivingDiesDesignMachinesAccountsIntelligentCodeIntelligent DesignOrigin Of LifePainlessBiosAssemblage Author:William A. Dembski
“The mechanical philosophy was ever blind to this fact. Intelligent design, on the other hand, readily embraces the sacramental nature of physical reality. Indeed, intelligent design is just the Logos theology of John's Gospel restated in the idiom of information theory.” PhilosophyFactsHandsRealityInformationDesignTheoryIntelligentBlindEmbraceTheologyLogosIntelligent DesignIdiom Author:William A. Dembski
“Thus, in its relation to Christianity, intelligent design should be viewed as a ground-clearing operation that gets rid of the intellectual rubbish that for generations has kept Christianity from receiving serious consideration.” ShouldChristianityGenerationsDesignSeriousIntellectualRelationIntelligentOperationsConsiderationReceivingRubbishClearingIntelligent Design Author:William A. Dembski
“Intelligent design, unlike creationism, is a science in its own right and can stand on its own feet.” FeetDesignIntelligentCreationismIntelligent Design Author:William A. Dembski
“Intelligent design is a modest position theologically and philosophically. It attributes the complexity and diversity of life to intelligence, but does not identify that intelligence with the God of any religious faith or philosophical system.” DoeReligiousDesignPositionDiversityIntelligentPhilosophicalComplexityAttributesModestReligious FaithIntelligent DesignDiversity Of Life Author:William A. Dembski
“Precisely because intelligent design does not turn the study of biological origins into a Bible-science controversy, intelligent design is a position around which Christians of all stripes can unite.” DoeChristianTurnsStudyDesignPositionIntelligentControversyStripesIntelligent Design Author:William A. Dembski
“There is an immediate payoff to intelligent design: it destroys the atheistic legacy of Darwinian evolution. Intelligent design makes it impossible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.” ImpossibleDesignEvolutionIntelligentAtheistLegacyFulfilledAtheisticIntelligent DesignPayoff Author:William A. Dembski
