My alumni/ae magazine, The University of Chicago Magazine, has a brief piece on me in its June 2005 issue (p. 58). It’s always interesting to see how one is perceived: Debunking Darwin. William Dembski, PhD’88, a leading voice in the “intelligent design” movement–the argument that the natural world could not have evolved without an intelligent agent–begins a new job in June. The author of a number of books, including The Design Inference (Cambridge University Press, 1998), Dembski joins Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, as director of the seminary’s new Center for Theology and Science. With degrees in psychology, statistics, divinity, and philosophy as well as his Chicago doctorate in mathematics, he uses statistical methods to argue that Darwin … Continue reading “Debunking Darwin”