Tag: materialism
The Sagacity of Emma Darwin
In a review of Roger Scruton’s new book, Laura Keynes commends the wisdom of her ancestor, Mrs. Darwin.
"Bah! Humbug!" How Darwin Stole Christmas…
Will you help us rescue our culture from the Darwinist Grinches, the Scrooges of modern materialism?
In Cosmology, There’s a Free Lunch After All
Nature reviews Lawrence Krauss’s new book, A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing.
Beauty Explained in Literally Cartoon Darwinist Terms
As Denis Dutton speaks, he’s accompanied by projections of cute but extremely simple if not crude cartoons illustrating his points.
Materialists Beware: The First Gene Defends a Strictly Scientific, Non-Materialist Conception of Biological Origins
Can a book that is essentially devoid of the term “intelligent design,” doesn’t talk about “specified complexity,” and makes only scant mention of “irreducible complexity,” offer an argument that is friendly to teleology in biology? A new technical book, The First Gene, edited by Gene Emergence Project director David L. Abel, shows that the answer to that question is “yes.” Materialists will not like this book because its arguments are 100% scientific, devoid of religious, political, or cultural concerns, and most importantly, compelling. The arguments in The First Gene are rooted in what Abel calls “ProtoBioSemiotics” or “ProtoBioCybernetics,” which according to Abel answers questions like: How did a prebiotic natural environment of mere mass/energy interactions generate meaningful, functional messages? How Read More ›