Category: Culture & Ethics
Darwin and the Newtonian Metanarrative
People chose to believe what they wanted to believe in obedience to the then reigning intellectual fashion.
For Darwin, Timing Was Everything
Charles Darwin, as we saw yesterday, pulled off an intellectual coup against the major thinkers of the Western tradition. How did he do it?
Neil Thomas: An Autopsy of Darwinism
How was it that a theory so poorly supported by the evidence nevertheless came to dominate the academy?
Professor Explains “How to Be a God”
Transhumanists and futurists worry about guaranteeing rights for AI technologies when they attain “consciousness.”
Martin Luther King on Intelligent Design
This idea was crucial to his ethical vision. For more, see our brief and timely video, “Martin Luther King on the Design of the Universe.”