Scientists rightly resist invoking the supernatural in scientific explanations for fear of committing a god-of-the-gaps fallacy (the fallacy of using God as a stop-gap for ignorance). Yet without some restriction on the use of chance, scientists are in danger of committing a logically equivalent fallacy-one we may call the โchance-of-the-gaps fallacy.โ Chance, like God, can become a stop-gap for ignorance.
William A. DembskiIntelligent Design opens the whole possibility of us being created in the image of a benevolent God.
William A. DembskiI believe God created the world for a purpose. The Designer of intelligent design is, ultimately, the Christian God.
William A. DembskiAny view of the sciences that leaves Christ out of the picture must be seen as fundamentally deficient.
William A. DembskiThe 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