Tag: nihilism

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Author
David Berlinski

Date
March 30, 2022

Categorized
Ethics

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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
Neil Thomas

Date
January 28, 2022

Categorized
Evolution

Tagged
Albert Einstein, Aristotle, Atheism, atomism, automatism, Bertrand Russell, chance, Darwinism, empirical evidence, Epicurus, Erasmus Darwin, European Enlightenment, Evolution, experimental science, fine tuning, Galen, Hank Hanegraaff, Intelligent Design, James Le Fanu, John Lennox, logical positivism, Lucretius, Materialism, Michael Denton, Natural Selection, Neil Thomas, nihilism, Plato, Privileged Planet, rationalism, Richard Dawkins, Richard Spilsbury, Thomas Huxley}

Neil Thomas Takes on Epicurus and the Logical Positivists

_{Neil Thomas

January 28, 2022

Evolution}

Today’s ID the Future concludes a three-part series featuring author Neil Thomas in a free-ranging conversation with radio show host Hank Hanegraaff. The focus is Thomas’s recent book, Taking Leave of Darwin: A Longtime Agnostic Discovers the Case for Design. Here Thomas and Hanegraaff discuss the logical positivists and what Thomas sees as their failure to consistently apply their evidential standards to Darwinism. Thomas also contrasts the cosmic nihilism of Richard Dawkins with the mounting evidence of fine tuning for life, and calls out what Thomas describes as the magical thinking at the heart of Darwinism. Hanegraaff and Thomas also explore how Darwin’s theory of evolution has roots in an ancient philosophical system that was long regarded as resting on Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
November 22, 2021

Categorized
Ethics

Tagged
Adolf Hitler, Bioethics, biological determinism, Casey Luskin, Charles Darwin, Charles Davenport, colonialism, Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, Darwinism, embryonic gene editing, Ernst Haeckel, Ernst Rüdin, Eugen Fischer, Eugenics, Euthanasia, evolutionary science, Francis Galton, From Darwin to Hitler, history of science, human-animal chimeras, imago dei, immoral experimentation, Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, miscegenation, Natural Selection, Nazi Germany, nihilism, No-True-Scotsman fallacy, Nordic racism, pseudoscience, Richard Weikart, scientific racism, struggle for existence, survival of the fittest, The Death of Humanity, The Origin of Species, Tuskegee syphilis experiment, Universal Human Rights, Yuval Noah Harari}

Richard Weikart on Scientific Racism and the War on Humanity

_{Richard Weikart

November 22, 2021

Ethics}

Today’s ID the Future again spotlights The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith. Historian Richard Weikart and host Casey Luskin discuss Weikart’s contribution to the new anthology, his essay “How Evil Has Been Done in the Name of Science.” As Weikart explains, over the past century and a half, science has been misused to fuel racist policies and undermine human rights. Darwinian ideas helped lay the groundwork for Nazi ideology in Germany. And we shouldn’t imagine the problem was restricted to Nazi Germany. Scientific racism also reared its head in the United States, including in the long-running and infamous Tuskegee syphilis experiment. More broadly, a marriage of scientism and evolutionary thinking continues to undermine the idea of inherent human worth Read More ›

Sunset in the sea, a small sailing boat at sunset away

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
September 29, 2021

Categorized
Faith and Science

Tagged
abrupt appearance, African perspective, African scientists, agnosticism, Atheism, beginning of universe, Biological Information, Casey Luskin, Creationism, David Gelernter, Dover intelligent design trial, Dover vs. Kitzmiller, fine tuning, Fossil Record, history of life, human exceptionalism, irreducible complexity, local fine tuning, Michael Shermer, Molecular Machines, Neil Thomas, New Atheism, new new atheists, nihilism, Phil Torres, purpose, Return of the God Hypothesis, Salon.com, Sapiens, Science, Science and faith, scientific Materialism, Scientism, Stephen Meyer, Steven Weinberg, supernatural, superstition, Theism, Thomas Nagel, warfare model, Western perspective, Yuval Noah Harari}

Bidding Adieu to Steven Weinberg’s Take on Science and Faith

_{Casey Luskin

September 29, 2021

Faith and Science}

On today’s ID the Future, Casey Luskin, associate director of Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture, discusses his Evolution News article about the recently deceased Steven Weinberg. On Weinberg’s view, one of science’s social functions is to undermine religion, which he sees as superstition. Luskin takes the opposite view and points to skilled and successful scientists he got to know in Africa. He says these scientists are convinced that the supernatural is real and would find Weinberg’s secular Western rejection of the supernatural as blinkered. Luskin and host Robert Crowther also discuss a hopeful trend among some atheists toward a more civil and respectful way of engaging intelligent design, even to the point of acknowledging that design theorists are Read More ›

Zegiestow, Poland. 2019/8/10. Stained-glass window depicting the Creation of the World with the words

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
April 7, 2021

Categorized
Intelligent Design

Tagged
Albert Einstein, Atheism, Big Bang, Bill Gates, Biological Information, carbon resonance, Charles Darwin, cosmological constant, cosmology, Darwin’s Doubt, digital code, DNA, eternal universe, expanding universe model, expansion rate of the universe, fine tuning, fine-tuning parameters, founders of science, Fred Hoyle, genetic information, God hypothesis, Goldilocks universe, imago dei, Intelligent Design, intelligibility of nature, Karl Marx, Materialism, Michael Medved, New Atheists, nihilism, origins, philosophical materialism, Richard Dawkins, scientific revolution, Sigmund Freud, Signature in the Cell, steady state model, Stephen C. Meyer, Theism}

Michael Medved and Stephen Meyer on the Return of the God Hypothesis

_{Stephen C. Meyer

April 7, 2021

Intelligent Design}

Today’s ID the Future features, by permission, a recent conversation between radio show host Michael Medved and philosopher of science Stephen Meyer as they discuss Meyer’s new book, Return of the God Hypothesis. Listen in as Meyer, director of Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture, provides a swift flyover of 500 years of scientific history, in which he traces the rise, fall, and rise again of a paradigm Meyer refers to as “the God hypothesis.” To learn more about Meyer’s new book and see the growing list of enthusiastic reviews from top scientists, go to ReturnoftheGodHypothesis.com.