Tag: Tom Wolfe
Before Gelernter, Wolfe, Shapiro, Prager, Nagel, Et Al., There Was Iconoclast Tom Bethell
Watch this short feature on Bethell, “Iconoclast: One Journalist’s Odyssey Through the Darwin Debates.”
From The Atlantic on Teaching Human Evolution, a Bit of Rare Honesty in Reporting
With permission from John West and Sarah Chaffee, here is the full text of their interview with staff writer Olga Khazan.
The Dam Begins to Break: Gelernter’s Apostasy Attracts Mainstream Media Coverage
Yale computer scientist Dave Gelernter’s recent public admission that he’s giving up Darwin continues to make waves.
The “Fearing Evolution” Trope
Razib Khan explains why “evolutionary biology is nothing for conservatives to fear,” since “it is one of the crowning achievements of modern Western civilization.”
Yale’s David Gelernter: Darwin’s Doubt Is “One of the Most Important Books in a Generation”
He credits reading Meyer’s book as the primary cause of his rejecting neo-Darwinian evolution, a “brilliant and beautiful scientific theory” now overtaken by science.