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Intelligent Design Coming Clean
By William Dembski on November 18, 2000Read more1. Cards on the Table In the movie Dream Team starring Michael Keaton, Keaton plays a psychiatric patient who must feign sanity to save his psychiatrist from being murdered. In protesting his sanity, Keaton informs twoNewYorkCity policemen that he doesn’t wear women’s clothing, that he’s never danced aroundTimes Square naked, and that he doesn’t talk to Elvis. The two police
0Baylor University Responds to Misconceptions about the Polanyi Center Controversy
By the Editor on October 27, 2000Read moreIn light of remarks on the META list that indicate a significantmisunderstanding of the recent events surrounding the Polanyi Center atBaylor University, most particularly the removal of Dr. Dembski as itsdirector, I think it is important to clarify the significance of what hashappened. Dr. Dembski was not removed from the directorship for any academic failure.Baylor recognizes the value and legitimacy
Formal letter of protest concerning Dembski’s removal
By the Editor on October 24, 2000Read moreSTATEMENT OF THE CRANACH INSTITUTEPROTESTING THE REMOVAL OF WILLIAM DEMBSKIAS DIRECTOR OF THE MICHAEL POLANYI CENTERAT BAYLOR UNIVERSITY The Cranach Institute wishes to express its dismay at the decision to removeWilliam Dembski as Director of the Michael Polanyi Center (Metanews,10/19/2000). Shortly before this announcement, we learned that thecommittee appointed to evaluate the status of the Center upheld theimportance and legitimacy
Sedimentary Muddle: Review of Robert Pennock’s “The Tower of Babel”
By Michael Roberts on October 19, 2000Read moreIt is odd how certain books can be turning points. I can think of three Rwhich have created turning points in my understanding of science and religion. The first was The Genesis Flood which convinced me in 1971 that Creationism was a serious issue. People in Britain laughed. The next was the Sea of Faith by Don Cupitt in 1983.Basically
Review of William Dembski’s Intelligent Design
By John Carvalho IV on May 31, 2000Read moreThe advent of Michael Behe’s book Darwin‘s Black Box was probably one of the most provocative manuscripts to entice scholars in the philosophy of biology community and those in the science and religion dialogue to revisit intelligent design. William Dembski provides a kind of sequel to Behe’s controversial but respectable work with his new book Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between