William Dembski

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia William Albert Bill Dembski born July 18 1960 is an American analytic philosopher known as a proponent of intelligent design and for the concept of specified complexity He is currently a Research Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Cultural Engagement at the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary at Fort Worth Texas and a senior fellow of the Discovery Institutes Center for Science and Culture He is the author of a number of books about intelligent design including The Design Inference 1998 Intelligent Design The Bridge between Science and Theology 1999 The Design Revolution 2004 The End of Christianity 2009 and Intelligent Design Uncensored 2010 The concept of intelligent design involves the argument that an overarching intelligence is responsible for the complexity of life and that it can be detected empirically Dembski postulates that probability theory can be used to prove irreducible complexity or what he calls specified complexity The theory of intelligent design in generaland Dembskis concept of specified complexity in particularare seen by the scientific community as a contemporary form of creationism drawn from a conservative Christian set of religious beliefs attempting to portray itself as science Description above from the Wikipedia article William A Dembski licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia