On the Design Disquisitions YouTube channel, I’ve posted a new video where I recommend several books of interest, specifically pro-ID literature. Most of the suggestions may be familiar to you, but hopefully there are a few that you’ve not read before. I also give a brief summary of the content of each book. I don’t Read More…
Tag: William Dembski
Bill Dembski on what John Archibald Wheeler got right and wrong about “it from bit”
Dembski agrees that the universe is, at bottom, information but proposes “informational realism” as a sounder approach to unpacking the idea.
Chemist James Tour interviews William Dembski May 3, 5:00 pm EST
On information theory, his specialty.
Eric Holloway: How Dembski’s explanatory filter can help quash conspiracy theories
Holloway says he found the explanatory filter quite helpful when investigating voter fraud claims in the recent US election.
William Dembski: Artificial intelligence understands by not understanding
Dembski continues to reflect on Erik J. Larson’s new book, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do (2021). He recalls his experiences learning to write boilerplate for a psychology chatbot back in 1982.
From Bill Dembski: Automated driving and other failures of AI
Dembski: in the cossetted and sanitized environments that we have constructed for ourselves in the U.S., have no clue of what capabilities AI actually needs to achieve to truly match what humans can do. The shortfall facing AI is extreme.
Bill Dembski on why Erik Larson says there will be no AI overlords
Abductive reasoning is part of design theory. Interesting that computers can’t do it…
Bill Dembski on how a new book expertly dissects doomsday scenarios
Dembski: “At the end of the discussion, however, Kurzweil’s overweening confidence in the glowing prospects for strong AI’s future were undiminished. And indeed, they remain undiminished to this day (I last saw Kurzweil at a Seattle tech conference in 2019 — age seemed to have mellowed his person but not his views).” But Larson says it’s all nonsense.
A new book discusses Walter Bradley’s life and legacy
Walter Bradley has been a key figure in the ID community. The biography, For a Greater Purpose, is by Robert J. Marks and William Dembski.
Sean McDowell interviews Bill Dembski on how the ID movement is doing
Was the ID movement a success? What did it get right, and how has it changed?
Eric Holloway: Dembski’s filter is critical for internet communication
It turns out that legions of critics of the explanatory filter use it all the time, without noticing.
Eric Holloway: Why Bell’s theorem matters
Especially to conservation of information theory: This brings us to a more general result known as the conservation of information. Design theorists William Dembski and Robert J. Marks defined the law of conservation of information in their 2009 paper “Conservation of Information in Search” and then proved the result in their follow-on 2010 paper “The Read More…
Bill Dembski on the primacy of information for science
The conversation with Fred Skiff, chair of the physics department at the University of Iowa examines why information is the most basic object of study in science and how Conservation of Information naturally leads to the conclusion that intelligence is the ultimate source of information.
Could information be—at long last—the missing “dark matter”?
One physicist now suggests that this “fifth state” of matter (the other four non-dark states are solid, liquid, gas, and plasma) might be information. But then information must be a physical thing…
Bill Dembski remembers Phil Johnson (1940–2019)
Dembski begins by reminding us of the book, Darwin’s Nemesis (2006), which introduced Johnson as “the leading figure” in the intelligent design movement—which he was. Johnson was perhaps the first person after David Berlinski to just ask, point blank, never mind religion or whatever, why does all this tabloid-level nonsense rule biology?