59 Quotes by William A. Dembski

Because we don’t see the evil destroyed now and thus experience the suffering that evil inevitably inflicts, we are tempted to doubt God’s existence and goodness.

Virtually every discipline and endeavor is presently under a naturalistic pall.

Intelligent design, unlike creationism, is a science in its own right and can stand on its own feet.

Design theorists are no friends of theistic evolution.

Government has a legitimate sphere of operation. The problem arises when that sphere continually expands, encompassing areas where government lacks legitimacy.

Without a unified political climate of opinion, there is little or no political profit in doing the right thing.

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.

Intelligent design is a modest position theologically and philosophically. It attributes the complexity and diversity of life to intelligence, but does not identify that intelligence with the God of any religious faith or philosophical system.

As far as design theorists are concerned, theistic evolution is American evangelicalism’s ill-conceived accommodation to Darwinism .