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Denton, Berlinski: Primary Objections to Neo-Darwinism

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If you had an opportunity to confute and confound your Darwinist friends, but a limited amount of time in which to do it, what challenge would you put to them? Discovery Institute Senior Fellows David Berlinski and Michael Denton are both long-time critics of neo-Darwinism. On a classic episode of ID the Future, responding to this query from Evolution News editor David Klinghoffer, they discuss their primary objections to neo-Darwinian theory.

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For Berlinski, a mathematician and author of The Deniable Darwin, the problem is quantitative and methodological. For Denton, a geneticist and author of the new Discovery Institute Press book Children of Light: The Astonishing Properties of Light that Make Us Possible, the problem is empirical. Don’t miss this engaging discussion.

Photo: Humpback whale, by Robbie Shade, via Flickr (cropped).