Tag: David Gelernter
Two Ways for ID Critics, Both Lame
As others have said before me, one of the first things you notice about ID critics is the low level of most of their critiques.
Razib Khan: A Geneticist and the Alt-Right
He canoodled with white supremacists, and now advises conservatives not to engage with Darwin skeptics.
The “Fearing Evolution” Trope
Razib Khan explains why “evolutionary biology is nothing for conservatives to fear,” since “it is one of the crowning achievements of modern Western civilization.”
Yale’s David Gelernter: Darwin’s Doubt Is “One of the Most Important Books in a Generation”
He credits reading Meyer’s book as the primary cause of his rejecting neo-Darwinian evolution, a “brilliant and beautiful scientific theory” now overtaken by science.
Great Minds: Medved, Gelernter Ask, “What Is a Conservative?”
The hypothesis of design in nature is a great idea, none greater, that has fueled the best in culture for millennia.