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• Christ is indispensable to any scientific theory, even if its practitioners do not have a clue about him.

  William A. Dembski

  Religion, Atheism, Clue

  "Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science & Theology". Book by William A. Dembski, 2002.

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• You have to understand, in the current academic climate, Intelligent Design is like leprosy or heresy in times past. To be tagged as an ID supporter is to become an academic pariah, and this holds even at so-called Christian institutions that place a premium on respectability at the expense of truth and the offense of the Gospel.

  William A. Dembski

  Christian, Intelligent, Past

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• As long as the wrong people hold power, how can the right political climate even arise?

  William A. Dembski

  Long, People, Political

  "Peerless: A Radically Decentralized Digital Monetary Framework". billdembski.com. November 23, 2016.

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• The problem with merely writing so that you can be understood is that the wrong people, in advancing their agendas, are only too ready to misunderstand you. Writing so that you cannot be misunderstood anticipates and preempts those who would willfully distort what you are trying to say.

  William A. Dembski

  Writing, People, Misunderstood

  "Peerless: A Radically Decentralized Digital Monetary Framework" by Bill Dembski, billdembski.com. November 23, 2016.

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• 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

  Christian, Intelligent, Design

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• In God becoming human in Jesus Christ, God has established solidarity with the human condition.

  William A. Dembski

  Jesus, Becoming, Christ

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• Thus, in its relation to Christianity, intelligent design should be viewed as a ground-clearing operation that gets rid of the intellectual rubbish that for generations has kept Christianity from receiving serious consideration.

  William A. Dembski

  Intelligent, Design, Intellectual

  "Intelligent Design's Contribution To The Debate Over Evolution: A Reply To Henry Morris". billdembski.com. February 01, 2005.

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• Thus, in a crucial way, the Kansas hearings repeat the pattern set by the Scopes Trial, which has been repeated many times since, namely, evolutionists escaped critical scrutiny by not having to undergo cross-examination. In this case, they accomplished the feat by boycotting the hearings. I therefore await the day when the hearings are not voluntary but involve subpoenas that compel evolutionists to be deposed and interrogated at length on their views.

  William A. Dembski

  Kansas, Views, Trials

  "The Vise Strategy: Squeezing the Truth out of Darwinists" by William Dembski, uncommondescent.com. May 11, 2005.

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• The mechanical philosophy was ever blind to this fact. Intelligent design, on the other hand, readily embraces the sacramental nature of physical reality. Indeed, intelligent design is just the Logos theology of John's Gospel restated in the idiom of information theory.

  William A. Dembski

  Philosophy, Intelligent, Reality

  "Signs of intelligence: understanding intelligent design". Book by William A. Dembski and James M. Kushiner, March 2001.

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• What I propose, then, is a strategy for interrogating the Darwinists to, as it were, squeeze the truth out of them.

  William A. Dembski

  Strategy, Propose

  "The Vise Strategy: Squeezing the Truth out of Darwinists" by William A. Dembski, uncommondescent.com. May 11, 2005.

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• The young earth-solution to reconciling the order of creation with natural history makes good exegetical and theological sense. Indeed, the overwhelming consensus of theologians up through the Reformation held to this view. I myself would adopt it in a heartbeat except that nature seems to present such strong evidence against it.

  William A. Dembski

  Strong, Views, Order

  William A. Dembski (2009). “The End of Christianity: Finding a Good God in an Evil World”, p.55, B&H Publishing Group

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• The world is a mirror representing the divine life.

  William A. Dembski

  Mirrors, World, Divine

  "Signs of intelligence: understanding intelligent design". Book by William A. Dembski and James M. Kushiner, March 2001.

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• This is really an opportunity to mobilize a new generation of scholars and pastors not just to equip the saints but also to engage the culture and reclaim it for Christ. That's really what is driving me.

  William A. Dembski

  Opportunity, Saint, Generations

  "Dembski to head seminary's new science & theology center", Baptist Press, September 16, 2004.

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• I believe God created the world for a purpose. The Designer of intelligent design is, ultimately, the Christian God.

  William A. Dembski

  Christian, Believe, Intelligent

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

  William A. Dembski

  Intelligent, Design, Possibility

  "Defeating Darwinism in Our Culture" panel discussion, National Religious Broadcasters meeting, Anaheim, February 06, 2000. "Why Darwin Matters". Book by Michael Shermer, 2006.

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• Intelligent design is just the Logos theology of John's Gospel restated in the idiom of information theory.

  William A. Dembski

  Intelligent, Design, Information

  "Signs of intelligence: A primer on the discernment of intelligent design". Touchstone Magazine 12 (4), July/August, 1999.

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• The question rather is how we should do science and theology in light of the impending collapse of Enlightenment rationalism and scientific naturalism. These ideologies are on the way out. They are on the way out.

  William A. Dembski

  Light, Way, Should

  William A. Dembski (2002). “Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science & Theology”, p.14, InterVarsity Press

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• Virtually every discipline and endeavor is presently under a naturalistic pall.

  William A. Dembski

  Discipline, Endeavor

  William A. Dembski (1999). “Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science & Theology”, Intervarsity Press

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• 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, Law, Games

  "Peerless: A Radically Decentralized Digital Monetary Framework". billdembski.com. November 23, 2016.

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• Without a unified political climate of opinion, there is little or no political profit in doing the right thing.

  William A. Dembski

  Political, Climate, Littles

  "Peerless: A Radically Decentralized Digital Monetary Framework". billdembski.com. November 23, 2016.

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• 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

  Believe, Teaching, Biblical

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• I think the opportunity to deal with students and getting them properly oriented on science and theology and the relation between those is going to be important because science has been such an instrument used by the materialists to undermine the Christian faith and religious belief generally.

  William A. Dembski

  Christian, Religious, Opportunity

  "Dembski to head seminary's new science & theology center". Jeff Robinson, Baptist Press, September 16, 2004.

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• If you have no authority to legislate my freedoms, then I'm truly free, at least from you.

  William A. Dembski

  Authority, Ifs

  "Peerless: A Radically Decentralized Digital Monetary Framework". billdembski.com. November 23, 2016.

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• Because we don't see the evil destroyed now and thus experience the suffering that evil inevitably inflicts, we are tempted to doubt God's existence and goodness.

  William A. Dembski

  Evil, Doubt, Suffering

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