Tag: David Klinghoffer
Listen: Why Scientific Materialism Is No Match for Truth, Beauty, and Goodness
These abstract concepts don’t derive from the material world, yet we feel impoverished without them; they’re foundations of a life worth living.
When It Comes to Origins Science, Is PNAS Really “Ready When You Are”?
Kevin Williamson imagines that scientists are free to “slug it out” in journals and other academic settings, so that the truth reliably emerges.
On Intelligent Design, Do Your Own Homework. Make Up Your Own Mind.
C.S. Lewis encountered an objection to his literary criticism analogous to Kevin Williamson’s and explored its underlying logic.
Stifling the Intelligent Design Debate Is Bad Science
Kevin Williamson deploys an absurd reductionist construct of the ID field as consisting of ideological assertions by “lawyers” and “amateurs.”
Listen: Why Does Darwinism Hang On?
David Berlinski notes, “Applying Darwinian principles to problems of this level of complexity is like putting a Band-Aid on a wound caused by an atomic weapon.”