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William Albert Dembski (born July 18, 1960) is an American mathematician, philosopher and theologian. He was a proponent of intelligent design (ID) pseudoscience , [ 1 ] specifically the concept of specified complexity , and was a senior fellow of the Discovery Institute 's Center for Science and Culture (CSC). [ 2 ]
The Design Inference: Eliminating Chance through Small Probabilities is a 1998 book by American philosopher and mathematician William A. Dembski, a proponent of intelligent design, which sets out to establish approaches by which evidence of intelligent agency could be inferred in natural and social situations. In the book he distinguishes ...
Specified complexity is a creationist argument introduced by William Dembski, used by advocates to promote the pseudoscience of intelligent design. [1] According to Dembski, the concept can formalize a property that singles out patterns that are both specified and complex, where in Dembski's terminology, a specified pattern is one that admits short descriptions, whereas a complex pattern is ...
Dembski asserts that one can effectively estimate a positive value which is a universal probability bound. The existence of such a bound would imply that certain kinds of random events whose probability lies below this value can be assumed not to have occurred in the observable universe, given the resources available in the entire history of ...
The Design Revolution: Answering the Toughest Questions about Intelligent Design is a 2004 book by William A. Dembski, who supports intelligent design, and the idea that certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not a naturalistic process such as natural selection. The book is written in ...
In 1999, William A. Dembski was invited by Baylor University president Robert B. Sloan to form the Michael Polanyi Center, described by Dembski as "the first Intelligent Design think tank at a research university." Its creation was controversial with Baylor faculty, and in 2000 it was merged with the Institute for Faith and Learning.
Pages in category "Books by William A. Dembski" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. D.
Dembski (feminine: Dembska; plural: Dembscy) is a Polish-language surname. It is a variant of Dębski (). The surname may refer to: Paweł Dembski, 16th-century Polish churchman; William A. Dembski (born 1960), American mathematician, philosopher and theologian; Yevheniya Dembska (1920–2019), theatre and cinema actress