Author: David Berlinski

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Author
David Berlinski

Date
April 25, 2022

Categorized
Culture, Ethics

Tagged
Big Bang, Bill Gates, Catholic thought, Daniel Henninger, David Berlinski, declining homicide rate, eternal universe, homicide rate, Human Nature, medieval murder rate, Michael Medved, Notre Dame Cathedral, Notre Dame fire, Russian invasion of Ukraine, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, The Devil Resurfaces in Ukraine Vladimir Putin, The Devil’s Delusion, The Kellogg–Briand Pact, Whig history, World War I, World War II}

Medved, Berlinski Take on Steven Pinker and Whig History

_{David Berlinski

April 25, 2022

Culture, Ethics}

On this ID the Future, Human Nature author and polymath David Berlinski and radio host Michael Medved discuss everything from human depravity, the burning of Notre Dame, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine to the Big Bang and a quixotic century-old pact to ban war. Berlinski argues that the case for the death of God and the case for the impending demise of human depravity have been greatly exaggerated. Contra Steven Pinker, Berlinski insists that there is little if any evidence that human evil is being steadily rolled back by the spread of secular values. Further, the idea that science has disproven God flies in the face of trends running in the opposite direction, perhaps most dramatically in the triumph Read More ›

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Author
David Berlinski

Date
March 30, 2022

Categorized
Ethics

Tagged
agnosticism, Atheism, Darwinism, David Berlinski, emotivism, Evolution, God, human exceptionalism, human rights, Humanize podcast, Intelligent Design, irreducible complexity, Jewish Holocaust, Marcel Schützenberger, Materialism, metaphysics, methodological materialism, Michael Behe, Natural Selection, nature rights movement, Nazis, Nazism, nihilism, Notre Dame, Peter Abelard, philosophy of science, random mutations, self-referential fallacies, The SS State, Theism, Wesley J. Smith}

David Berlinski on Nazism, Darwinism, Emotivism, and Nature Rights

_{David Berlinski

March 30, 2022

Ethics}

On today’s ID the Future, Human Nature author David Berlinski continues his conversation with host Wesley J. Smith. Here Berlinski reflects on the Jewish Holocaust, the destructive nihilism of the Nazis and the SS, and the shortcomings of Neo-Darwinism as an explanation for the diversity of life. Berlinski and Smith also discuss the increasingly widespread attacks on human exceptionalism, the growth of emotivism and why it’s a problem, and the bizarre nature rights movement. This is the second and concluding part of a conversation borrowed, with permission, from Wesley J. Smith’s Humanize podcast.

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Author
David Berlinski

Date
March 28, 2022

Categorized
Ethics

Tagged
Alonzo Church, architecture, China, communism, cultural decay, decadence, high gothic architecture, Human Nature, Jewish Holocaust, mathematical logic, Nazis, nihilism, Notre Dame Cathedral, Philosophy, philosophy of mathematics, promiscuity, Scientism, secular humanism, technocracy, the universal civilization, World War II}

David Berlinski on the Universal Civilization, Architectural Decline, and Fleeing the Nazis

_{David Berlinski

March 28, 2022

Ethics}

On this ID the Future, host Wesley J. Smith talks with polymath and Human Nature author David Berlinski about the philosophy of mathematics, the corruption of science, the burning of Notre Dame, modern Europe’s curious incapacity to build graceful, beautiful structures, and what’s driving the devolution of Western society. But before any of that, Berlinski relates the dramatic story of how his parents, European Jews, escaped the Nazis only by the skin of their teeth. This is Part 1 of a two-part conversation borrowed with permission from Wesley J. Smith’s Humanize podcast.

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Author
David Berlinski

Date
December 6, 2019

Categorized
Science

Tagged
__edited, agnosticism, anti-Semitism, Atheism, Darwinism, demographic winter, entropy, Europe, Evolution, Jews and Muslims, nation state, nationalism, patriotism, second law of thermodynamics, Theism}

Peter Robinson Interviews David Berlinski, Pt. 3

_{David Berlinski

December 6, 2019

Science}

Today’s episode of ID the Future features the third and final part of a conversation between Uncommon Knowledge host Peter Robinson and Darwin skeptic David Berlinski, author of the newly released book Human Nature. Here the pair discuss the fate of Europe. Then they turn again to science, and the challenge the second law of thermodynamics poses for Darwinism and, by implication, to any theory of biological origins restricted to purely mindless processes. Berlinski suggests that this poses a considerable challenge, tempting Robinson to ask Berlinski whether he still consider himself an agnostic.

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Author
David Berlinski

Date
December 4, 2019

Tagged
__edited, Blueprint, cooperation, Holocaust, Human Nature, Islam, Nazism, Nicholas Christakis, Pope Benedict, Pope Benedict XVI, progress, Regensburg Address, sociobiology, Theology, virtue}

Peter Robinson Interviews David Berlinski, Pt. 2

_{David Berlinski

December 4, 2019}

This episode of ID the Future features the second part of a conversation between Uncommon Knowledge host Peter Robinson and polymath David Berlinski, author of the newly released book Human Nature. In this segment of the interview, Robinson asks Berlinski about a book by Nicholas Christakis, Blueprint, which argues that evolution has endowed us with a genetic makeup that drives human culture toward virtue and progress. Berlinski demurs, pointing to the horrors of the twentieth century and by noting that the virtues Christakis underscores, such as cooperativeness, can also be put to nefarious purposes. The Nazi Party, for instance, “was a marvelous engine of cooperation. All those Nazis cooperated with one another running death camps.” Robinson also asks Berlinski about Read More ›

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Author
David Berlinski

Date
December 2, 2019

Tagged
__edited, cell biology, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, Evolution, gender, male and female, modern evolutionary theory, Natural Selection, nominalism, Razib Khan, sexuality, speciation, Species, universals}

Peter Robinson Interviews David Berlinski, Pt. 1

_{David Berlinski

December 2, 2019}

This episode of ID the Future features Part 1 of an interview between Uncommon Knowledge host Peter Robinson and Discovery Institute senior fellow David Berlinski, author of The Deniable Darwin and the newly released Human Nature. Berlinski begins by noting that living systems possess “a degree of complexity that is almost unfathomable” and explains how this poses an acute problem for Darwinism. The two also discuss discontinuities in the fossil record as well as Berlinski’s insistence that “any theory of natural selection must plainly meet what I have called a rule against deferred success.” Berlinski also rebuts Razib Khan’s claim that in rejecting modern evolutionary theory, conservatives sacrifice “the most powerful rejoinder” to the claim “that male and female are Read More ›

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Author
David Berlinski

Date
November 20, 2019

Tagged
__edited, architecture, art, cathedral, China, creativity, cultural decline, Gothic architecture, Gothic cathedrals, Hitler, London, medieval Europe, modernity, murder rates, Notre Dame, Paris, Russia, Steven Pinker, the Holocaust, the Louvre, Violence}

David Berlinski on His New Book, Human Nature, Pt. 2

_{David Berlinski

November 20, 2019}

On this episode of ID the Future, mathematician, polymath, and Discovery Institute Senior Fellow David Berlinski concludes a two-part conversation with Jonathan Witt about Berlinski’s new book Human Nature. Today he talks about what we’ve sadly lost from the West, disputing secularists’ optimistic claims that we’re less violent than the medievals were. From his home next door to Notre Dame Cathedral, he also muses on the cathedral fire and contemporary France’s inability to build anything like the great cathedral. Re-construct, yes — though even that may lie beyond the collective will of France. Create, no.

David Berlinski on His New Book Human Nature, Part 1

_{David Berlinski

November 13, 2019}

On this episode of ID the Future, philosopher, mathematician, and Discovery Institute Senior Fellow David Berlinski answers questions from Jonathan Witt about Berlinski’s celebrated new book Human Nature. Is evolution carrying us upward to new heights of human goodness, as some have claimed? If not that, then will a computer-connected singularity take us on that upward trajectory, as Yuval Noah Harari argues in Homo Deus? With his famous quick wit, Berlinski says no, and warns of a new “explosion of religion,” but a new religion, one without rational grounding and with a great willingness to punish dissenters.

David Berlinski on Cladistics and Darwin’s Doubt, pt. 2

_{David Berlinski

December 8, 2017}

On this episode of ID the Future, Dr. David Berlinski continues his exploration of cladistics and the Cambrian explosion. Listen in as Berlinski explains the limitations of cladistic analysis and looks at some specifics of Nick Matzke’s critique of Darwin’s Doubt.

David Berlinski: The Nature of Numbers, pt. 2

_{David Berlinski

January 24, 2014

Uncategorized}

On this episode of ID the Future, Dr. David Berlinski continues to discuss the origin and nature of mathematics with CSC Research Coordinator Casey Luskin. Is math something waiting to be discovered, or is it a construct of the human mind? Listen in as Dr. Berlinski examines the mystery of mathematics, and reflects on the blurry distinction between math that is “discovered” and math that is “created.”