Tag: Human Nature

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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 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 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 ›

Who Question with Copyspace, Chinese Language

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
November 27, 2019

Tagged
__edited, Barbara Forrest, California Science Center, Cambrian Explosion, Charles Darwin, Donald Prothero, falsifiability, genetic drift, Human Nature, Jeffrey Shallit, Jerry Coyne, Larry Moran, Materialism, methodological naturalism, Motoo Kamura, Neo-Darwinism, NOMA, Non-overlapping magisteria, P. Z. Myers, Phillip Johnson, Richard Dawkins, Richard Lewontin, Robert Pennock, Stephen Jay Gould, The Blind Watchmaker, University of Kentucky}

David Berlinski Pays Tribute to Phillip Johnson

_{Andrew McDiarmid

November 27, 2019}

On this episode of ID the Future, Andrew McDiarmid reads from David Berlinski’s new book Human Nature. The excerpt is a tribute to Phillip Johnson and his 1991 book Darwin on Trial. Berlinski calls the work a “Majestic Ascent.” Johnson, he writes, not only brought evolution into question logically and scientifically; he brought the case where it belongs, before “the considered reflection of the human race.” Berlinski himself reflects on various empty attempts to build a scientific theory on prior commitments to materialism. “Darwin’s theories,” he says, “are correspondingly less important for what they explain, which is very little, and more important for what they deny, which is roughly the plain evidence of our senses.”