On June 1st 2005, Bill Dembski started as director of the Center for Science and Theology at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. On April 9th 2006, it was announced that he was leaving the position to "work closer to his home in Waco, Texas, where he has maintained a residence while commuting to Louisville to teach." But never fear, Dembski will become research professor of philosophy at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, where there are no pesky mathematicians, scientists or (by the looks of it) philosophers to get in the way. Anyone want to bet how long Dembski keeps the job?
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William Dembski is changing jobs. For a year, he's been teaching in Louisville (while commuting from Waco) at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary; now he's going to be closer to home with a position at the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Ft. Worth:
Dembski will become research…
I reported the other day that William Dembski is leaving the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville to take a position closer to his home in Waco, Texas. Now comes word that he is being replaced at SBTS by Kurt Wise, a young earth creationist geologist. It's certainly interesting that…
What a year it has been for the Discovery Institute and the Intelligent Design movement! Below the fold, I detail the advances that ID has made in the short time since Judge Jones delivered his ruling in Kitzmiller v. Dover.
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Just as a tree that has been "rimmed" (i.e., had its bark…
I don't even have to comment on this article from the LA Times about a new major in homemaking (for women only, of course) at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. So much in the article speaks for itself.
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Seminary President Paige Patterson and his wife, Dorothy --…
What department? It must be School of Church Music.
A research professor? Not a tenure track position, doesn't bode well at the outset.
This is good news, and a well-deserved kick in the butt for Buffalo Bill. My fear however, is that since Dembski is nothing but a lying, dissembling snake-oil saleman, that he will try to emulate his fellow cultist Christians like Falwell and start his OWN "university".
He has at least one sycophant that would make the jump, his suck-mate DaveScott, and of course, all DaveScott's sycophants.
Yes, it is an ugly picture and I apologize for binging it to people's attention but, I just don't want anyone to think it's all over with this scum. Always be ready to "Give HIm The Wedgie" that he deserves!
I always get mixed up about the correct pronunciation of Waco (TX). Is it WAY-co or is it WHACK-o? Now I'm really going to be confused.
What do you do if you are "research professor" of intelligent design creationism?
At http://www.swbts.edu/theology/faculty.cfm , one can find two professors listed with that discipline: an Associate Professor of Philosophy of Religion (Douglas Blount), and an Assistant Professor of Philosophy (Greg Welty), in the School of Theology. So there's no department of philosophy, but a couple of professors teaching philosophy within the theology department ... about what one would expect at a school like this.
I'm sure they're thrilled to get Dembski as a colleague. And doubly thrilled that he won't be teaching. :-)
I don't have Dembski's resume memorized, but it seems to me that the guy can't seem to keep a job more than a year or so. Could it be that he is such an egomaniacal prig that his colleagues just have to get rid of him?
Yeah, but once he builds that "design-o-mometer" he'll be RICH! No one will be laughing then!
What a piteous wreck that guy is.
Duane asked: "What do you do if you are 'research professor' of intelligent design creationism?"
Theoretically, you could receive funds raised by Southwestern's Office of Institutional Advancement while setting science back.
In "one of those cosmic coincidence thingies" I found out today that, at the University of Pittsburgh of all places, they have a building called The Cathedral of Learning. http://www.umc.pitt.edu/tour/tour-080.html Pity Southwestern doesn't have one for Dembski. You can go here to operate the "cathedral cam." http://www.umc.pitt.edu/tour/cl_cam.html
My fear however, is that since Dembski ... will try to emulate his fellow cultist Christians like Falwell and start his OWN "university". He has at least one sycophant that would make the jump, his suck-mate DaveScott....
I'm trying to imagine DaveScot as professor of anything. Maybe someone could endow a chair for him so that he could become the "Rush Limbaugh Professor of Rhetoric " or "Bill O'Reilly Professor of Communications" or "Ham-Hovind Professor of Theology and Paleontology".
While doing some research for a web site, I came across a couple of interesting articles from the May 26, 2006 edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education. One reports on a recent ID "secret conference" and mentions Dembski. The other, interestingly enough, takes a look at a new line of neurobiological inquiry that is investigating the effect of religion on the brain and the possibility of conscienceness existing outside the bounds of one's physical body.