59 Quotes by William A. Dembski

The violence described in the Old Testament was endemic to the ancient Near East and remains endemic to much of the world today. Although our refined Western sensibilities recoil from these violent passages, in fact the Old Testament is to be credited for presenting the human condition in all its starkness.

Because government has tremendous power, it attracts people who are eager to game the system, obtaining by force of law what they could never achieve through consensus.

The promise of the Christian faith is that this life presages a glorious new life that will make present pains seem negligible:.

Intelligent Design opens the whole possibility of us being created in the image of a benevolent God.

God does not hinder the exercise of human freedom but rather anticipates its consequences.

Any view of the sciences that leaves Christ out of the picture must be seen as fundamentally deficient.

Precisely because intelligent design does not turn the study of biological origins into a Bible-science controversy, intelligent design is a position around which Christians of all stripes can unite.

Even with the right political climate, would the wrong people refrain from doing the wrong thing?

Give us detailed, testable, mechanistic accounts for the origin of life, the origin of the genetic code, the origin of ubiquitous bio macromolecules and assemblages like the ribosome, and the origin of molecular machines like the bacterial flagellum, and intelligent design will die a quick and painless death.