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Chatting with Biologist Richard Sternberg About a Formative Intellectual Experience

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Biologist Richard Sternberg stops by Discovery’s office.

Posted by Center for Science & Culture on Wednesday, December 6, 2017


Our biologist colleague Richard Sternberg chatted with me today on Facebook Live about a formative intellectual experience for him — an encounter with theoretical biologist Robert Rosen and his work. Rejecting “knee-jerk” reductionism in biology, as Rosen did, was a crucial step for Dr. Sternberg in his own evolution in the direction of intelligent design theory. Sternberg emphasizes that Rosen himself did not take that step. But let him tell his own story!

David Klinghoffer

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David Klinghoffer is a Senior Fellow with Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture. He is the author of seven books including Plato’s Revenge: The New Science of the Immaterial Genome and The Lord Will Gather Me In: My Journey to Jewish Orthodoxy. A former senior editor at National Review, he has contributed to the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and other publications. He received an A.B. magna cum laude from Brown University in 1987. Born in Santa Monica, CA, he lives on Mercer Island, WA.
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