William A. Dembski
William A. DembskiAtheism is cheating whenever it makes a moral judgment, acting as though it has an objective reference, when the very philosophy in fact precludes it.
Evolution is a theory in danger of attributing too many of its unknown processes to 'chance'. Without some restriction on the use of 'chance', scientists are in danger of committing a logically equivalent fallacy to 'the-god-in-the-gaps" fallacy, one we may call the “chance-of-the-gaps fallacy" whereby chance, like God, can become a stop-gap for ignorance.
Intelligent design is, unlike creationism, a science in its own right and can stand on its own feet.
Intelligent design is a modest position theologically and philosophically, which 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.
Intelligent design does not turn the study of biological origins into a Bible-science controversy, and is thus a position around which Christians of all stripes can unite.
Intelligent design ought to be viewed as a ground-clearing operation that gets rid of the intellectual rubbish that for generations has kept Christianity from receiving serious consideration.
Intelligent design readily embraces the sacramental nature of physical reality and is just the Logos theology of John's Gospel restated in the idiom of information theory.
Intelligent design is supported by the fact that science would be impossible if our intelligence were not adapted to the intelligibility of the world, for our intelligence cannot properly be attributed to natural selection, which places a premium on survival and reproduction and has no stake in truth or conscious thought.
Natural selection explains how bacteria will gain antibiotic resistance or how insects get insecticide resistance, but it doesn't explain how you get bacteria or insects in the first place.
Naturalism's answer to theism is not atheism but benign neglect. People are welcome to believe in God, though not a God who makes a difference in the natural order.
Naturalism is not the idea that there's nothing beyond nature, but that nothing beyond nature could have any conceivable relevance to what happens in nature.
