Dembski at OU - the video

Matt Dowling has posted the video of the Dembski talk: parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
PZ’s comment on it was “The man can drone on“; Abbie said he was a really bad speaker.  My thought at the time was “he’s so much more entertaining a speaker in this context than he was at church”.  In [...]

The party continues

The Dembski Affair is still going strong, still attracting a lot of buzz. You can take a look at my previous post if you want to see the first set of commentary.

‘Irreducible Complexity’ Reflects Human Ignorance - Abbie expands on what she calls Dr. Philip Klebba’s “very public depantsing on the evolution of the [...]

Intelligent design as a “ground clearing operation”

Last Sunday, when he introduced William Dembski at Trinity Baptist Church pastor Ronnie W. Rogers described intelligent design as a “ground clearing operation”. The following day, during the Q & A that followed his talk, Dembski also described ID using the same words. In essence, he said that ID seeks to clear away [...]

Party at Meacham

For people who are interested in other perspectives of the Dembski-party on Monday night, here are some other people’s take on the issue
Apart from ERV and Golfvixen at IIDB and me, some other accounts that deserve notice include:

Today I was a pirate wench, by Jessie: while she didn’t actually get in, she represented the [...]

Dembski and the flagellum

In Darwin’s Black Box, Behe takes evolutionary biology to task for failing to explain the evolution of biochemical pathways within the cell. From this he developed the idea of “irreducible complexity” - that there are systems that are too complex to have arisen by (known) evolutionary processes. From there, he makes the jump [...]

Dembski at OU: Why Atheism is no Longer Intellectually Fulfilling

I saw William Dembski talk last night at the Meacham Auditorium in the University of Oklahoma Student Union. The title of his talk was: Why Atheism is no Longer Intellectually Fulfilling: The Challenge of Intelligent Design to Unintelligent Evolution. He spoke for over an hour, dancing around a number of topics, but the theme that [...]

Dembksi at OU

As Abbie mentioned last week, intelligent design proponent William Dembksi will be in Norman next week. He will be preaching at Trinity Baptist on Sunday (Sept. 16) and speaking at the University of Oklahoma’s Meacham Auditorium (in the Student Union) next Monday (Sept. 17). He is being hosted by the Pursuit College Ministry, [...]