The atheist is cheating whenever he makes a moral judgment, acting as though it has an objective reference, when his philosophy in fact precludes it. William A. Dembski More Quotes by William A. Dembski More Quotes From William A. Dembski Design theorists are no friends of theistic evolution. William A. Dembski no-friends design evolution 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. William A. Dembski design knowing art What I propose, then, is a strategy for interrogating the Darwinists to, as it were, squeeze the truth out of them. William A. Dembski propose strategy My thesis is that all disciplines find their completion in Christ and cannot be properly understood apart from Christ. William A. Dembski thesis discipline christ Christ is indispensable to any scientific theory, even if its practitioners do not have a clue about him. William A. Dembski clue atheism religion Wrong people are wrong not because of their faults but because of their presumed virtues. William A. Dembski faults virtue people Wrong people are wrong because they use their freedom to deny it to others. William A. Dembski deny use people 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. William A. Dembski intelligent christian past The world is a mirror representing the divine life. William A. Dembski mirrors divine world 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. William A. Dembski intelligent philosophy reality Intelligent design is just the Logos theology of John's Gospel restated in the idiom of information theory. William A. Dembski information design intelligent Because government has tremendous power, it attracts people who are eager to game the system, obtaining by force of law what they could never achieve through consensus. William A. Dembski government law games This is really an opportunity to mobilize a new generation of scholars and pastors not just to equip the saints but also to engage the culture and reclaim it for Christ. That's really what is driving me. William A. Dembski generations saint opportunity Intelligent Design opens the whole possibility of us being created in the image of a benevolent God. William A. Dembski possibility design intelligent The young earth-solution to reconciling the order of creation with natural history makes good exegetical and theological sense. Indeed, the overwhelming consensus of theologians up through the Reformation held to this view. I myself would adopt it in a heartbeat except that nature seems to present such strong evidence against it. William A. Dembski strong views order I believe God created the world for a purpose. The Designer of intelligent design is, ultimately, the Christian God. William A. Dembski intelligent christian believe As long as the wrong people hold power, how can the right political climate even arise? William A. Dembski political long people The question rather is how we should do science and theology in light of the impending collapse of Enlightenment rationalism and scientific naturalism. These ideologies are on the way out. They are on the way out. William A. Dembski light should way In God becoming human in Jesus Christ, God has established solidarity with the human condition. William A. Dembski becoming jesus christ As a biblical inerrantist, I believe that what the Bible teaches is true and bow to the text, including its teaching about the Flood and its universality. William A. Dembski biblical teaching believe
