Tag: Thomas Nagel
“Stuck in the Late 19th Century”: Andrew Klavan, Stephen Meyer on Scientific Atheism
Darwin, Marx, and Freud are largely responsible for elaborating the outlook that sought to replace the Western theistic view.
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.
From Scientific American, Another Bedtime Story for Atheists
The upshot of the best modern biology and cosmology can be epitomized by changing just one word in physicist Steven Weinberg’s famous comment.
Against the Tide: Oxford’s John Lennox Describes Kinship with C. S. Lewis
“I owe him an immense amount because although he wasn’t a scientist, he understood science. He understood the implications and the philosophy of science.”
Why Science and Atheism Don’t Mix
Physicist John Polkinghorne says that the reduction of mental events to physics and chemistry destroys meaning.