Episode 20
Intelligent Design, Faith Journey & AI: Science, Mystery & the Creator
Featuring Dr. William Dembski
July 7, 2026
Dr. Bill Dembski, Cornerstone University’s Distinguished Scholar of Mathematics and Philosophy of Science and a founding senior fellow at the Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture, joins host Gerson Moreno-Riaño on the Wisdom and Influence podcast for a conversation on faith, science, and technology. Dembski recounts his journey from a nominally Catholic upbringing through Eastern mysticism to a transformative encounter with Christ, then examines the tension within Christianity between theological precision and vital spiritual experience. The discussion turns to intelligent design and information theory, considering how the complexity of nature points to a Creator rather than an unguided material process. Dembski then addresses artificial intelligence, arguing from his work on conservation of information that machines can only recombine existing data and cannot originate genuinely new insight, and critiquing the transhumanist hope of AI-driven salvation. Listeners will hear a mathematician and philosopher’s case for why true creativity and consciousness depend on a transcendent source rather than computation.