Author: David Berlinski

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Author
David Berlinski

Date
December 13, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, bells, cathedrals, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, new york, Paris, pompiers}

Letter from Paris: Notre-Dame Restored

_{David Berlinski
December 13, 2024

Bioethics, Faith & Science

10}

If the cathedral had lost something of its causal connection to the past, it had reacquired its original colors and with those colors, its intended design. Read More ›

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Author
David Berlinski

Date
July 10, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
Tagged
, analytic philosophy, artificial intelligence, Chinese, Chinese characters, Chinese Room, computers, English, intelligence, intentionality, John Searle, observer, Yale University}

Blind Ambition — Revisiting Searle’s Chinese Room

_{David Berlinski
July 10, 2023

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology

7}

For the most part, computer scientists have tended to ignore Searle’s argument and the point of view that it represents. Read More ›

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Author
David Berlinski

Date
July 7, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, animals, chimpanzees, Columbia University, Darwinian theory, David Premack, Dogs, dolphins, facial expressions, great apes, humans, Jesuits, mathematician, MIT, puppy, San Diego, Stanford University, University of Pennsylvania}

Ovid in His Exile

_{David Berlinski
July 7, 2023

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

4}

Schermerhorn Hall at Columbia University was the scene of many strange experiments. Read More ›

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Author
David Berlinski

Date
June 19, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, apes, bananas, Charles Darwin, chimpanzees, cooking, curiosity, evolution, Harvard University, human mind, humans, lice, music, Stephen Jay Gould, Western culture}

Good as Gould? Ask a Chimp

_{David Berlinski
June 19, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology

3}

No distinction in kind rather than degree between ourselves and the chimps? No distinction? Seriously, folks? Read More ›

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Author
David Berlinski

Date
June 13, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Life Sciences
Mathematics
Planetology
Tagged
, addition, algorithms, Andrew Wiles, Anna Karenina, calculus, cyberspace, DNA, double helix, fields, genetic code, Greek, incompleteness theorem, Isaac Newton, Kool-Aid, Kurt Gödel, Leo Tolstoy, mathematician, mechanics, molecular biology, New Hampshire, particles, recipe, Sanskrit, Space Invaders, subtraction, Sudan, TIME, U.S. Constitution, Viagra}

Iterations of Immortality

_{David Berlinski
June 13, 2023

Evolution, Life Sciences, Mathematics, Planetology

14}

The calculus made modern science possible, but it was the algorithm that made possible the modern world. Read More ›

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Author
David Berlinski

Date
June 5, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, atheism, biologists, Blaise Pascal, calculus, David Chalmers, Eucharist, materialism, naturalism, numbers, particles, physicalism, physicists, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, quantum field theory, René Thom, Science After Babel, scientific revolution, scientism, theologians, Tower of Babel, transhumanism, Vishnu}

Science After Babel: An Exercise in Self-Criticism

_{David Berlinski
June 5, 2023

Evolution, Physical Sciences

6}

Until the day before yesterday, the imperial architects of the scientific revolution were well satisfied and sleek as seals. Read More ›

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Author
David Berlinski

Date
May 26, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, cells, decision, Evolution News, factory, information, journals, life, meaning, Texas A&M}

“The Activity of a Cell Is Like That of a Factory”

_{David Berlinski
May 26, 2020

Intelligent Design

1}

It is always interesting to see how observations that we have been making for years are now a part of the general chatter. Read More ›

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Author
David Berlinski

Date
November 6, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, Barbara Forrest, California Science Center, Cambrian Explosion, Charles Darwin, Darwin on Trial, Divine Foot, Donald Prothero, Jeffrey Shallit, Jerry Coyne, Laurence Moran, Martin Gaskell, Michael Ghiselin, Motoo Kimura, mullahs, New York Times, Phillip E. Johnson, PZ Myers, Richard Dawkins, Richard Lewontin, Robert Pennock, Stephen Jay Gould, The Blind Watchmaker, The New York Review of Books, U.C. Berkeley, University of Kentucky}

Majestic Ascent: Phillip Johnson’s Darwin on Trial

_{David Berlinski
November 6, 2019

Evolution

12}

There is some evidence that once again, the diapason of opinion is being changed. The claims of intelligent design are too insistent and too plausible to be frivolously dismissed. Read More ›

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Author
David Berlinski

Date
April 16, 2019

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __k-review, bells, gargoyle, Johann Sebastian Bach, M.-P. Schützenberger, Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris, pompiers}

Letter from Paris: The Bells Are Silent

_{David Berlinski
April 16, 2019

Faith & Science

2}

I would go into the cathedral and light a candle for M.-P. Schützenberger. He had wished to return as one of the gargoyles, and, perhaps, he had. Read More ›

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, May 26th 2018: A solo busker is sitting in front of the Flinders Street Train Station

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Author
David Berlinski

Date
July 18, 2013

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Response to Criticism, science}

A One-Man Clade

_{David Berlinski
July 18, 2013

Evolution, Intelligent Design

18}

Had Stephen Meyer better appreciated the tools of modern cladistics, Nick Matzke believes, he would not have drawn the conclusions that he did in his book Darwin's Doubt, or argued as he had. Read More ›