Tag: Philosophy

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David Berlinski

Date
March 28, 2022

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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

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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
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 22, 2021

Tagged
abortion, Bioethics, coronavirus, coronavirus response, Epoch Times, Ethics, Eugenics, fetus, genetics, governance, human life, Jay W. Richards, Morality, pandemic response, Philosophy, politics, rule by scientists, Science, science-ocracy, Scientism, Wesley J. Smith}

No, Scientists Should Not Rule

_{Wesley J. Smith

January 22, 2021

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On this new episode of ID the Future, The Price of Panic co-author and philosopher Jay Richards hosts bioethicist Wesley J. Smith to discuss a Tweet from Physics-Astronomy.org. The Tweet read, “Imagine a world ruled by scientists, not politicians.” The drift of the Tweet was, wouldn’t rule by scientists be wonderful! Smith immediately threw up a great big “Don’t go there” sign at the Epoch Times. As Smith and Richards emphasize, such an approach to governance would be disastrous, and would actually be anti-science. It would tend to corrupt the practice of science, thrust scientific specialists into positions calling for generalist skills, and further the arrogant mistake that is scientism—the view not only that nature is all there is, but Read More ›

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Author
John Lennox

Date
November 2, 2020

Tagged
Against the Tide, Atheism, DNA, explanatory power, fine-tuning, Francis Crick, Fred Hoyle, Gospel of John, image of God, imago dei, Intelligent Design, James Watson, Kevin Sorbo, logos, Materialism, Miller-Urey, Naturalism, panspermia, Philosophy, Psalm 19, Richard Dawkins, Scientism, sequence hypothesis, Theism, Thomas Nagel, worldviews}

John Lennox Against the Tide of Scientism

_{John Lennox

November 2, 2020

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On this ID the Future, host Stephen Meyer concludes his three-part conversation with Oxford mathematician and philosopher John Lennox on Lennox’s new film Against the Tide: Finding God in an Age of Science. Science depends on word, on logos, says Lennox, meaning the rational intelligibility of the universe. Francis Crick, co-discoverer of DNA, wished to disprove the need for God, but the language of DNA has turned out to be a signpost to an intelligence, Lennox comments, a logos, behind nature. Scientists still claim authority to pronounce against theism, but according to Lennox, such pronouncements come not from science but from a dogma known as scientism. Far from being “science vs. God,” it’s really a collision of competing worldviews. All Read More ›

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Author
Michael Aeschliman

Date
October 14, 2019

Tagged
__edited, 1984, Aristotle, C.S. Lewis, Christianity, classics, Darwinism, dystopia, English literature, epistemology, Ernst Haeckel, Ethics, George Orwell, German militarism, Marxism, natural law, Objectivity, Philosophy, Plato, rational life, reductionism, scientific Materialism, Scientism, Second Fall of Man, Sidney Hook, Social Darwinism, That Hideous Strength, The Abolition of Man, utopia}

Aeschliman Talks C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man, and That Hideous Strength

_{Michael Aeschliman

October 14, 2019

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Michael Aeschliman, author of the newly revised and expanded The Restoration of Man: C. S. Lewis and the Continuing Case Against Scientism sits down with host Andrew McDiarmid to explore Lewis’s The Abolition of Man, its defense of natural law, and its bracing takedown of scientism. Read More ›

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Author
Nancy Pearcey

Date
December 24, 2018

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__edited, Charles Darwin, evidence, history of science, Materialism, philosophical naturalism, Philosophy, speciation, Thomas Henry Huxley}

Pearcey on Darwin and Huxley: Philosophy, Not Evidence, Drove Them to Their Conclusions

_{Nancy Pearcey

December 24, 2018

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On this episode of ID the Future, Nancy Pearcey returns to explain what historians know, but few of the rest of us do: If anything, Charles Darwin’s science grew out of his naturalistic philosophy, not the other way around. One historian said Darwin’s naturalism came first, and “only later did he find a theory to validate his convictions.” His “bulldog”, T.H. Huxley, liked Darwinism more for its philosophy than its science. And even Darwin admitted the evidence wasn’t all it could or should be. Please consider donating to support the IDTF Podcast.

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Author
JP Moreland

Date
November 26, 2018

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__edited, culture, History, history of science, J.P. Moreland, Mike Keas, Philosophy, philosophy of science, Scientism, secularism}

J.P. Moreland: Scientism Fuels Our Culture’s Turmoil

_{JP Moreland

November 26, 2018

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On this episode of ID the Future, host Mike Keas and philosopher J. P. Moreland continue their conversation on Moreland’s new book Scientism and Secularism: Learning to Respond to a Dangerous Ideology. Scientism is the view that science trumps all other knowledge, but Moreland and Keas reveal in this podcast just how much science depends on both philosophy and history. Scientism is, thus, self-defeating. Nevertheless, and as Moreland goes on to argue, it remains “at the bottom of the turmoil that is facing our culture,” and many young people are being sucked into its errors.

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Author
Michael Chaberek

Date
August 27, 2018

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__edited, accidents, Catholic philosophy, Catholicism, Darwinian metaphysics, essential nature, Evolution, God, metaphysics, Michael Chaberek, Neo-Darwinism, neo-Thomist, Philosophy, scholastics, substance, Theology, Thomas Aquinas, Thomism, Thomist}

Why Aquinas and Darwin Don’t Mix

_{Michael Chaberek

August 27, 2018

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On this episode of ID the Future, host Jay Richards talks with Fr. Michael Chaberek about Charles Darwin and medieval scholar Thomas Aquinas, one of the most influential of all Western philosophers, and especially central in Roman Catholic thinking. Many Catholic scholars support neo-Darwinism and insist that Aquinas’s work nicely harmonizes with neo-Darwinism. Chaberek, author of the recent book Aquinas and Evolution, and creator of the new website Aquinas.design, offers several reasons to conclude otherwise.

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Author
John Lennox

Date
March 10, 2017

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__edited, John Lennox, m-theory, Philosophy, Stephen Hawking, The Grand Design, Whose Design is it Anyway?}

Prof. John Lennox Responds to Stephen Hawking

_{John Lennox

March 10, 2017

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On this episode of ID the Future, Dr. Jay Richards talks with John Lennox about his book God and Stephen Hawking: Whose Design Is It Anyway? In this book, Prof. Lennox counters Stephen Hawking’s argument in The Grand Design that “the universe can and will create itself from nothing.” Is philosophy dead, as Hawking claims? Is the so-called M-theory the “only viable candidate” for a complete ‘theory of everything’? Tune in and find out!

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 29, 2016

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__edited, Morality, Philosophy}

Intelligent Design and Human Exceptionalism

_{David Klinghoffer

June 29, 2016

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On this episode of ID the Future, Senior Fellow David Klinghoffer discusses the concept of “human exceptionalism” — the idea than human beings hold a unique place in the world, reflecting a special status not comparable to other creatures. Klinghoffer examines the relation between a belief in intelligent design and a belief in human exceptionalism, arguing that ID helps make the case for human dignity.

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
April 13, 2016

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__edited, Ethics, Morality, Philosophy, The Death of Humanity}

Richard Weikart: The Death of Humanity, pt. 3

_{Richard Weikart

April 13, 2016

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On this episode of ID the Future, hear part 3 of author and historian Dr. Richard Weikart’s discussion of his latest book, The Death of Humanity. Dr. Weikart examines the philosophical concept of NOMA (non-overlapping magisteria), and how morality fits into the Darwinian process.