Stephen E. Jones

Intelligent Design: William A. Dembski: `complete' links

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The following aimed to be a complete set of links to webbed articles by leading Intelligent Design theorist, William A. Dembski, andto significant articles about, or critiques/reviews of, Dembski. However, due to other priorities I have fallen behind. I hope to catch up at later.

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A `complete' list of webbed articles by, or about, William A. Dembski

Dembski home pages:

• Design Inference Website: The Writings of William Dembski, 7 June 2002.
• No Free Lunch. Dembski's home page at Discovery Institute, Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture. 2001.
• Senior Fellow William Dembski. Dembski's book No Free Lunch home page. 2002.
• The Official Home Page of William A. Dembski . Dembski's Home page at Baylor University, 9 November, 2001.
• William A. Dembski. Dembski's home page at Access Research Network, 1999.
  

About Dembski:

• New society ponders universe's design. By Uwe Siemon-Netto, United Press International, 7 December 2001.
• Biographical Sketch. Baylor University, 9 November, 2001.
• Curriculum Vitae. Baylor University, 9 November, 2001.
• Design Theory: Creationist dogma or evolutionary punk rock?. By Melissa Martin, Medford Mail-Tribune June 29, 2001. Access Research Network, July 23, 2001.
• Monkey Business. Lauren Kern, Dallas Observer, January 11, 2001. Access Research Network, January 26, 2001.
• It's Perilous to Ponder the Design of the Universe. By Uwe Siemon-Netto, United Press International, December 21, 2000. Access Research Network, February 26, 2001.
• The Lynching of Bill Dembski Scientists say the jury is out - so let the hanging begin, Fred Heeren, The American Spectator, November 2000.
• Polyani Center's future is unclear: Director's removal arises from e-mail, Blair Martin, The Baylor Lariat, October 24, 2000.
• Unintelligent Designs Baylor's dismissal of Polyani Center director Dembski was not a smart move, John Wilson, Christianity Today, Books & Culture, October 23, 2000.
• Baylor demotes director of Polanyi Center, Jason Embry, Waco-Tribune Herald, October 19, 2000.
• Defending Faith and Learning: Baylor University's Polanyi Center comes under fire from the university's faculty, Christianity Today, Books & Culture, John Wilson, April 24, 2000.
• Scientists Find Evidence of God, Stephen Goode, Insight on the News, April 19,1999. Access Research Network, April 29, 1999.

Articles by Dembski:

• Becoming a Disciplined Science: Prospects, Pitfalls, and a Reality Check for ID," Keynote address delivered at RAPID Conference (Research and Progress in Intelligent Design), Biola University, La Mirada, California, ISCID, 25 October 2002.
• Elliott Sober's Independent Evidence Requirement for Design: A brief reply to Elliott Sober's main line of attack against the legitimacy of design within biology, ISCID, 23 October 2002.
• The Logical Underpinnings of Intelligent Design (pdf 176K): Dembski's contribution to Debating Design: From Darwin to DNA (Cambridge University Press, to appear 2003, co-edited with Michael Ruse), ISCID, October 2002.
• Evolutionary Logic: Humorous extension of Paul Dunmore's "The Uses of Fallacy," New Zealand Mathematics Magazine, vol. 7, 1970, ISCID, September 2002.
• Addicted to Caricatures: A Response to Brian Charlesworth," ISCID, July 2002.
• The Design Revolution: Answering The Toughest Questions About Intelligent Design, ISCID, July 2002.
• Commentary on Eugenie Scott and Glenn Branch's "Guest Viewpoint: `Intelligent design' Not Accepted by Most Scientists", ISCID, 2 July, 2002.
• The Primacy of the First Person: Reply To Ray Kurzweil, ISCID, July 2002.
• Skepticism’s Prospects for Unseating Intelligent Design, ISCID, June 21, 2002.
• The Fantasy Life of Richard Wein: A Response to Response," International Society for Complexity, Information and Design, June 7, 2002.
• Obsessively Criticized but Scarcely Refuted: A Response to Richard Wein," International Society for Complexity, Information and Design, May 13, 2002.
• Does Evolution Even Have A Mechanism?: Address to the American Museum of Natural History, April 23, 2002, Discovery Institute, April 23, 2002.
• Fruitful Interchange or Polite Chitchat?: The Dialogue Between Science and Theology, with Stephen C. Meyer, Access Research Network, February 6, 2002.
• Refuted Yet Again!: A Brief Reply To Matt Young, Discovery Institute, January 25, 2002.
• How STILL Not to Debate Intelligent Design Follow-up Statement by William A. Dembski on the Publication of Robert Pennock's New Book with MIT Press. Access Research Network, January 9, 2002.
• How Not to Debate Intelligent Design Statement by William A. Dembski on the Publication of Robert Pennock's New Book with MIT Press, Metanexus.net News. Access Research Network, January 8, 2002.
• What Have Butterflies Got to Do with Darwin?. Review of Bernard d’Abrera, The Concise Atlas of Butterflies of the World (London: Hill House, 2001). Discovery Institute, December 12, 2001.
• Another Way to Detect Design?: Lectures in response to Fitelson, Stephens, and Sober, How Not to Detect Design, Metanexus: Views (2001.09.14, 2001.09.21, and 2001.09.28). Delivered October 5-6, 2001 at the Society of Christian Philosophers, the University of Colorado, Boulder. Access Research Network, October 22, 2001. Includes The Chance of the Gaps [*.pdf 217 Kb] & Why Natural Selection Can't Design Anything [*.pdf 190 Kb].
• Introduction to No Free Lunch Access Research Network, October 1, 2001.
• ID as a Theory of Technological Evolution. Metaviews, January 24, 2001. Access Research Network, October 5, 2001.
• Is Intelligent Design Testable? Metaviews, January 24, 2001. Access Research Network, October 5, 2001.
• Teaching Intelligent Design: What Happened When?: Responds to Eugenie Scott's post to Metaviews 008, February 12, 2001. Access Research Network, February 27, 2001.
• Conservatives, Darwin & Design: An Exchange. Criticism of conservatives' attitude to Darwinism by Larry Arnhart, and responses by Michael J. Behe and William A. Dembski, First Things 107 (November 2000): 23-31.
• Fishing for votes, William A. Dembski and Mark Hartwig, Discovery Institute, December 7, 2000.
• America's Obsession With Design. Metanexus, November 17, 2000. Access Research Network, December 5, 2000.
• Shamelessly Doubting Darwin, American Outlook Magazine, November/December 2000.
• Intelligent Design Coming Clean, Metaviews, November 17, 2000. Discovery Institute.
• The Evidential Collapse of Darwinism. Review of Icons of Evolution: Science or Myth? by Jonathan Wells, Regnery Publishing. Amazon.com, October 21, 2000.
• Pennock's Convenient Distortion: Reply to Misquotation. Discovery Institute, June 28, 2000.
• How Not to Analyze Design: Dembski replies in brackets to Ellery Eell's review of The Design Inference, Philosophical Books, Vol. 40, No. 4, October 1999. Discovery Institute, June 28, 2000.
• Pigliucci's Intemperate Remarks. Referring to rebuttal by of Pigliucci's review of The Design Inference by a fellow skeptic, Mark Vuletic. Discovery Institute, June 28, 2000.
• Finding Ken Miller's Point: Dembski response to Ken Miller's comments in Finding Darwin's God, June 28, 2000. Access Research Network, June 13, 2000.
• Design as a Research Program: 14 Questions to Ask About Design. Access Research Network, June 13, 2000.
• Who's Got the Magic?, Metaviews 42, April 25, 2000. Leadership U, 14 July 2002.
• Because It Works. That's Why! A review of Yair Guttmann's The Concept of Probability in Statistical Physics. Books & Culture, Mar/Apr 2000.
• Disbelieving Darwin-And Feeling No Shame!, Metaviews, March 16, 2000. Discovery Institute.
• Intelligent Design is not Optimal Design, Metaviews, February 2, 2000. Discovery Institute.
• What Can We Reasonably Hope For?: A Millennium Symposium, First Things 99 (January 2000): 19-20.
• Detecting Design? : A First Response to Elliott Sober, Metaviews 167, December 29, 1999. Discovery Institute.
• Alchemy and the Emergence of Complex Systems. Metaviews, November 30, 1999. Discovery Institute.
• Why Evolutionary Algorithms Cannot Generate Specified Complexity. MetaNews, November 1, 1999. Discovery Institute.
• Are We Spiritual Machines? Review of Ray Kurzweil’s The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence (Viking, 1999). First Things 96 (October 1999): 25-31.
• The Unthinkable: Paul Davies uses the G-Word, but leaves little room for God. Books & Culture, Sep/Oct 1999.
• Explaining Specified Complexity, Metaviews 139, September 13, 1999, Leadership U, 14 July 2002.
• The Last Magic. Review of Mark Steiner's "The Applicability of Mathematics As a Philosophical Problem," Books & Culture, July/August 1999.
• The Act of Creation: Bridging Transcendence and Immanence. Presented at Millstatt Forum, Strasbourg, France, 10 August 1998. Access Research Network, November 15, 1998.
• The Intelligent Design Movement. Reprinted from Cosmic Pursuit, Spring 1998. Access Research Network, November 15, 1998.
• Intelligent Design as a Theory of Information. Access Research Network, November 15, 1998.
• Teaching Intelligent Design as Religion or Science?. Reprinted from The Princeton Theological Review, April 1996. Access Research Network, November 15, 1998.
• The Fallacy of Contextualism. Reprinted from The Princeton Theological Review, October 1994. Access Research Network, November 15, 1998.
• Conflating Matter and Mind. Reprinted from Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith, 43:2, April 1, 1991. Access Research Network, November 15, 1998.
• Science and Design. First Things 86 (October 1998): 21-27.
• An Analysis of Homer Simpson and Stephen Jay Gould. Access Research Network, November 29, 1997.
• Response to Arthur M. Shapiro: X Does implicate Y: implication and Entailment in the Creation-Evolution Debate, Darwinism: Science or Philosophy?: Proceedings of a symposium, Southern Methodist University campus, Dallas, Texas, March 26-28, 1992. Leadership University, 5 August 1997.
• Response to Arthur M. Shapiro: X Does implicate Y: implication and Entailment in the Creation-Evolution Debate, Darwinism: Science or Philosophy?: Proceedings of a symposium, Southern Methodist University campus, Dallas, Texas, March 26-28, 1992. Leadership University, 5 August 1997.
• Alchemy, NK Boolean Style: Review of At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self Organization and Complexity, by Stuart Kauffman. Origins & Design 17:2, Access Research Network, November 14, 1996.
• The Explanatory Filter: A three-part filter for understanding how to separate and identify cause from intelligent design. Excerpt from "Redesigning Science," Mere Creation conference, Biola University, Los Angeles, November 14-17, 1996. Access Research Network, November 15, 1998.
• What Every Theologian Should Know about Creation, Evolution, and Design. Reprinted from The Princeton Theological Review, March 1996. Access Research Network, November 15, 1998.
• The Incompleteness of Scientific Naturalism, Darwinism: Science or Philosophy?, March 26-28, 1992. Leadership University, 5 August 1997.
• Randomness by Design. Nous 25, January 1, 1991. Discovery Institute.
• Converting Matter into Mind: Alchemy and the Philosopher's Stone in Cognitive Science, Reprinted from Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith, 42:4, October 1, 1990. Access Research Network, November 12, 1998.
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Audio/Video:

• Interpreting Evolution: Scientific and Religious Perspectives, Haverford, June 2001.
• Another Way to Detect Design: Yale Conference-Science and Evidence for Design in the Universe November 2-4 2000.
• The Diane Rehm Show. Dembski debates Eugenie C. Scott, director of National Center for Science Education.
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Critiques/Reviews of Dembski:

• Evolution's Logic of Credulity: An Unfettered Response to Allen Orr, ISCID, December 2002. [See Dembski's original `fettered' response below]
• Sheer vs. Real Possibilities: A Response to Allen Orr, Boston Review, October/November 2002.
• No Free Lunch. Review by H. Allen Orr in Boston Review, Summer 2002.
• Naturalism's Argument from Invincible Ignorance: A Response to Howard Van Till, ISCID, September 2002.
• E. coli at the No Free Lunchroom (pdf 102K): Howard Van Till's review of Dembski's No Free Lunch.
• If Only Darwinists Scrutinized Their Own Work as Closely: A Response to "Erik", ISCID, August 2002.
• On Dembski's Law of Conservation of Information: Review of aspects of No Free Lunch by "Erik"
• Dembski's response to Korthof's review.
• On the origin of information by means of intelligent design: Review of William Dembski's "Intelligent Design" (1999) by Gert Korthof, 2 November 2001.
• Another Way to Detect Design?: Preliminary reply to review by B. Fitelson, C. Stephens, and Elliott Sober of The Design Inference in the Sept. 1999 issue of Philosophy of Science, "How Not to Detect Design". Access Research Network, June 28, 2000.
• How Not to Detect Design: A review of Dembski's The Design Inference, Cambridge University Press, 1998. By Branden Fitelson, Christopher Stephens & Elliott Sober, Department of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin, Madison, May 1999. Access Research Network, July 5, 2000. [See also Dembski's lectures in response above.]
• The Wizards of ID: by Robert Pennock, Metaviews 089, October 12, 2000.
• Response to Massimo Pigliucci's Review of The Design Inference. By Mark I. Vuletic. Access Research Network, July 5, 2000.
• Chance, Necessity, and the War against Science: Review of The Design Inference. By Massimo Pigliucci (BioScience 50(1):79-81, 2000. Access Research Network, July 5, 2000.
• Mere Creation: Science, Faith, and Intelligent Design. Reviewed by Jim Miller. Leadership University, 11 June 1999.
• The Anti-Evolutionists: William A. Dembski: Wesley R. Elsberry's links re Dembski.
• William Dembski Internet Infidels' links re Dembski.
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