Tag: communism

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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
Eric Holloway

Date
June 23, 2021

Categorized
Culture

Tagged
business, by Michael Hannan, capitalism, Charles Darwin, communism, competition, creativity, Darwinism, entrepreneurship, Evolution, free economy, free market, innovation, Intelligent Design, John Freeman, Marxism, Natural Selection, organizational ecology, Peter Thiel, random variation, Soviet Union, survival of the fittest, Zero to One}

What Darwinism Fails to Explain about Business Enterprise

_{Eric Holloway

June 23, 2021

Culture}

On today’s ID the Future, host Jay Richards talks with Eric Holloway about his recent Mind Matters article, “Can Darwinian Theory Explain the Rise and Fall of Businesses?” Why would anyone think Darwinian theory could explain business ups and downs? Holloway explains, and also notes that there’s an entire sub-discipline, organizational ecology, dedicated to studying business from a Darwinian framework. Richards, who has published on Darwinism, design, economics, and entrepreneurship himself, also weighs in. Darwinism sees business as survival of the fittest, with natural selection playing an obvious role, but where do the businesses and the innovations come from in the first place? Here is where Darwinism really founders as a tool for understanding business and entrepreneurship, says Holloway. It’s Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
November 11, 2020

Categorized
Free Speech

Tagged
Academic Freedom, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, cancel culture, censorship, communism, courage, Euthanasia, freedom of inquiry, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, Gulag, ideology, live not by lies, Nobel Prize in Literature, non-compliance with lies, political correctness, repression, Scientism, self-censorship, Soviet Communism, Soviet Union, Terri Schiavo, totalitarianism}

Live Not By Lies: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Intelligent Design

_{Michael Egnor

November 11, 2020

Free Speech}

On this ID the Future, neurosurgeon Michael Egnor discusses his recent article about Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Solzhenitsyn, the great Soviet dissident and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, penned the essay “Live Not By Lies” in 1974, just before he was arrested and exiled from Russia. It was his advice, or even strategy, for living under totalitarianism. Solzhenitsyn’s basic advice is simply not to participate with lies, and to refuse to speak what one does not believe. It’s unnervingly relevant counsel to us in America today, where “cancel culture” and other silencing tactics, long foreshadowed in the intelligent design debate, are spreading to the broader culture.

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Author
John Lennox

Date
October 30, 2020

Categorized
Faith and Science

Tagged
Against the Tide, Atheism, Big Bang, birth of science, Cambridge University, Chandra Wickramasinghe, Christianity, communism, fine tuning, Fred Hoyle, Georges LeMaitre, history of science, John Lennox, Kevin Sorbo, Richard Dawkins, scientific revolution, steady state theory, Stephen C. Meyer, Stephen Hawking}

John Lennox Against the Tide of Atheism

_{John Lennox

October 30, 2020

Faith and Science}

On this ID the Future, John Lennox tells about discovering the damage atheism does to people, by seeing it firsthand in communist Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, and seeing what it does to rationality itself. In his continuing conversation with host and philosopher of science Stephen Meyer, Lennox relates how in his interactions with famous religiously skeptical scientists, he emphasizes that the Judeo-Christian worldview did much to give us science. When skeptical scientists ask the Oxford mathematician and philosopher how Christianity could have anything to say to science, Lennox is ready with an answer. This is the second part of a three-part conversation in which Lennox discusses his new documentary, Against the Tide, filmed with actor and host Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
September 25, 2017

Tagged
__edited, Atheism, communism, Darwin, Darwinism, Disinherit the Wind, Evolution, Inherit the Wind, Intelligent Design, Matt Chait, Neo-Darwinism, Play, soviets, Stereotype}

Separating Fact from Faith in Science

_{Jonathan Wells

September 25, 2017}

An accountant wonders how people can separate fact from faith in scientific claims, and biologist Jonathan Wells (author of Zombie Science) and playwright Matt Chait respond. This conversation was taped live in Hollywood during a discussion after the final performance of Disinherit the Wind, a play that tells the story of a neurobiologist who sues his university for the right to challenge neo-Darwinian evolution.

Disinherit the Wind: Growing Up in a Darwinian State

_{John G. West

September 18, 2017}

A biology professor who grew up under communism shares what it was like to live in a society based on Darwin’s theory of evolution. He also discusses some amazing evidence of intelligent design in our cells. Biologist Jonathan Wells, author of Zombie Science, and political scientist John West, author of Darwin Day in America, both respond. This conversation was taped live in Hollywood during a discussion after the final performance of Disinherit the Wind, a play that tells the story of a neurobiologist who sues his university for the right to challenge neo-Darwinian evolution.