Tag: Princeton University
Cyclic Universe Can’t Avoid a Cosmic Beginning
The recent flutter over whether the James Webb Space Telescope’s data stream is a plus or a minus for the Big Bang raised interesting cosmological issues.
Could We Ever Recover Dinosaur DNA?
There have been a number of unexpected finds from dinosaurs besides bones; some paleontologists dig hopefully.
David Berlinski on Architectural Nihilism, Human Nature and the Holocaust, and Emotivism
We live in intellectually mediocre times, when commitment to true debate has been replaced by a desire to stifle heterodox thought.
How Has Darwinism Negatively Impacted Society?
The late Morris Goodman of Wayne State University argued that humans are “only slightly remodeled chimpanzee-like apes.”
Little Book, Big Waves — Nagel’s Mind and Cosmos, Nine Years Later
As a colleague points out, Nagel’s departure from the “right-thinking consensus” is on a par with David Gelernter’s 2019 farewell to Darwinism.