Tag: David Klinghoffer
Darwinian Psychologist David Barash Admits the Seeming Insolubility of Science’s “Hardest Problem”
“The hard problem of consciousness is so hard that I can’t even imagine what kind of empirical findings would satisfactorily solve it.”
My Back Hurts Therefore It Wasn’t Designed
How cruel of the Designer not to have taken Hugh Hefner’s plan for a fulfilling life as a model.
Metamorphosis, the Physical Book, Materializes
To really, really appreciate the gorgeous photos and savor the important and insightful essays by scientists and historians you could do worse than to pick up the physical book.
Slouching Toward Columbine: Darwin’s Tree of Death
Today at Beliefnet, David Klinghoffer has a provocative essay commemorating the 10th anniversary of the Columbine High School massacre in Colorado. Klinghoffer notes that Columbine killer Eric Harris was inspired in part by his fanatical devotion to Darwinian natural selection, a trait Harris unfortunately shared with many opponents of human dignity during the past century. Given the pervasive influence of Social Darwinism in our culture, Klinghoffer suggests that Darwin’s Tree of Life might be more appropriately viewed as a Tree of Death: Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution with its Tree of Life is applauded by most sophisticated Americans and Europeans as a scientific idea pure and simple, without the aura of dread and terror that, properly, should surround it in Read More ›
Breaking News on Sternberg Discrimination
David Klinghoffer has a breaking story in the National Review about an investigation by the U.S. Office of Special Counsel. The independent federal agency has now released a report about the discrimination that biology journal editor Richard Sternberg faced at the Smithsonian Institution for publishing an article arguing for intelligent design: