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William A. Dembski
American
Philosopher
Born:
Jul 18
,
1960
Atheist
Design
God
People
Political
Problem
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Wrong people are wrong because they use their freedom to deny it to others.
William A. Dembski
Freedom
People
Others
Wrong
Because
Deny
Use
In God becoming human in Jesus Christ, God has established solidarity with the human condition.
William A. Dembski
God
Christ
Solidarity
Becoming
Condition
Human
Established
Human Condition
Jesus
Jesus Christ
Wrong people are wrong not because of their faults but because of their presumed virtues.
William A. Dembski
People
Virtues
Faults
Wrong
Because
As long as the wrong people hold power, how can the right political climate even arise?
William A. Dembski
People
Political
Long
Power
Arise
Wrong
How
Climate
Political Climate
Hold
Even
Right
The wrong people will do everything in their power to guarantee that the wrong political climate will continue. It seems, then, that the wrong people ensure the wrong political climate and the wrong political climate ensures the wrong people. How then to break free of this vicious circle?
William A. Dembski
People
Political
Circle
Will
Free
Power
Everything
Ensure
Seems
Wrong
How
Climate
Continue
Political Climate
Break
Vicious
Then
Guarantee
Intelligent design, unlike creationism, is a science in its own right and can stand on its own feet.
William A. Dembski
Science
Own
Design
Unlike
Feet
Intelligent
Stand
Right
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.
William A. Dembski
Design
Stripes
Study
Because
Around
Does
Intelligent
Precisely
Controversy
Which
Turn
Unite
Origins
Biological
Christians
Position
There is an immediate payoff to intelligent design: it destroys the atheistic legacy of Darwinian evolution. Intelligent design makes it impossible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.
William A. Dembski
Atheist
Impossible
Design
Immediate
Destroys
Evolution
Darwinian
Makes
Intellectually
Intelligent
Legacy
Fulfilled
Payoff
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.
William A. Dembski
Life
God
Faith
Intelligence
Diversity
Design
Philosophical
Philosophically
System
Complexity
Religious
Religious Faith
Identify
Attributes
Does
Intelligent
Any
Modest
Position
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.
William A. Dembski
Government
Game
People
Law
Achieve
Power
Tremendous
System
Could
Through
Never
Obtaining
Force
Attracts
Because
Who
Eager
Consensus
Government has a legitimate sphere of operation. The problem arises when that sphere continually expands, encompassing areas where government lacks legitimacy.
William A. Dembski
Government
Problem
Sphere
Area
Arises
Operation
Continually
Encompassing
Lacks
Legitimacy
Where
Legitimate
Natural selection certainly operates. It explains how bacteria will gain antibiotic resistance; it will explain how insects get insecticide resistance, but it doesn't explain how you get bacteria or insects in the first place.
William A. Dembski
You
Natural
Will
Insects
First
Bacteria
Selection
First Place
How
Get
Gain
Place
Explain
Explains
Natural Selection
Certainly
Resistance
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.
William A. Dembski
Life
Death
Will
Design
Machines
Detailed
Give
Genetic
Like
Quick
Intelligent
Accounts
Die
Us
Molecular
Molecular Machines
Painless
Origin
Code
Bio
The problem of good as it faces the atheist is this: Nature, which is the nuts-and-bolts reality for the atheist, has no values and thus can offer no grounding for good and evil. Values on the atheist view are subjective and contingent.
William A. Dembski
Good
Nature
Atheist
Reality
Good And Evil
Problem
Evil
Values
Faces
Thus
Contingent
Subjective
Offer
Which
View
Grounding
As a biblical inerrantist, I believe that what the Bible teaches is true and bow to the text, including its teaching about the Flood and its universality.
William A. Dembski
Bible
Believe
About
True
Bow
Text
Teaches
Teaching
Including
Flood
Universality
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