Tag: David Gelernter
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.
Great Minds: Medved and Gelernter on Human Exceptionalism, American Exceptionalism
The human mind is exceptional in the universe as the United States is exceptional on the face of the Earth.
David Gelernter: “You Need To Know Who You Are To Begin With”
Knowing who you are, where you came from, is a central purpose of education, and frankly not only in the humanities but in biology.