Tag: David Berlinski
David Berlinski on Europe, Entropy, Agnosticism
Berlinski tempts Peter Robinson to ask him whether he still considers himself an agnostic.
Berlinski: Evolution Toward Virtue and Progress?
The Nazi Party, says David Berlinski, “was a marvelous engine of cooperation. All those Nazis cooperated with one another running death camps.”
Berlinski, Robinson on the “Almost Unfathomable Complexity” of Living Systems, and More
The two also discuss discontinuities in the fossil record as well as Berlinski’s insistence that “any theory of natural selection must plainly meet what I have called a rule against deferred success.”
Thanksgiving Day, 1859 — Guess What Happened?
The “fake news” about evolution is no joke. Through the media, in schools and colleges, it shapes our culture and erodes the noblest ideas of humankind’s place in the cosmos.
Ben Shapiro and David Berlinski on the Reversion to the Primitive in Modern Life
Their conversation is so full of treasures, it’s hard to distill it down to an essence. But I’ll try.