William Dembski
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William A. Dembski was born in Chicago, Illinois on July 18, 1960. His father taught evolutionary biology at the college level, and he never questioned evolution dogma growing up. He went to college at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), where he studied psychology (in which he received a B.A. in 1981) and statistics (receiving an M.S. in 1983).
He was awarded an S.M. in mathematics in 1985, and a Ph.D., also in mathematics, in 1988, both from the University of Chicago. After this he held a postdoctoral fellowship in mathematics from the National Science Foundation from 1988 until 1991, and another in the history and philosophy of science at Northwestern University from 1992–1993. In 1993 he received an M.A. from UIC, in philosophy followed by a Ph.D. in the same subject in 1996. In 1996 he also received a M.Div from Princeton Theological Seminary.
The Design Inference, based on his 1996 philosophy dissertation, was published in 1998 by Cambridge University Press. This was the first presentation of his suggested method for detecting intelligent causes by means of a "design inference". Robert Koons has called Dembski "the Isaac Newton of information theory."
Bibliography
- The Design Inference: Eliminating Chance through Small Probabilities, Cambridge University Press, 1998. ISBN 0521623871
- The Design Revolution: Answering the Toughest Questions about Intelligent Design. 2004. ISBN 0830823751
- Intelligent Design: The Bridge between Science and Theology, 1999. ISBN 083082314X
- Mere Creation. Downer's Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity Press, 1998. ISBN 0830815155
- No Free Lunch: Why Specified Complexity Cannot Be Purchased without Intelligence. 2002, ISBN: 0742512975
- Are We Spiritual Machines?: Ray Kurzweil vs. the Critics of Strong A.I. by Jay W. Richards, George F. Gilder, Ray Kurzweil, Thomas Ray, John Searle, William Dembski, Michael Denton. Discovery Institute.
- "The Chance of the Gaps". In Neil Manson, ed., God and Design: The Teleological Argument and Modern Science. (London: Routledge, 2002), 251–274.
- Debating Design: From Darwin to DNA. William A. Dembski and Michael Ruse (eds)
- The Design of Life: Discovering Signs of Intelligence in Biological Systems. (biology textbook co-authored with Michael Behe, Jonathan Wells, Percival Davis, and Dean Kenyon). Dallas: Foundation for Thought and Ethics, expected 2005.
- "Fourth World Skeptics Conference in Burbank a lively foment of ideas: Scams, intelligent design, urban legends, fringe psychotherapies get critical attention", Skeptical Inquirer, September 1 2002
- "Inconvenient Facts: Miracles and the Skeptical Inquirer", Philosophia Christi 13, 1990: 18-45.
- "In God's Country". Houston Press (Texas), December 14, 2000
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- Science and Evidence for Design in the Universe, Proceedings of the Wethersfield Institute, vol. 9 (coauthored with Michael Behe and Stephen C. Meyer). 2000, ISBN 0898708095
- Signs of Intelligence: Understanding Intelligent Design. William A. Dembski, James M. Kushiner, 2001. ISBN 1587430045
- What Darwin Didn't Know (2004) ISBN 0736913130
- Christian Theodicy in light of Genesis and Modern Science, 12 May 2006
