Barzun rejected the Darwinist insistence that purpose and design are illusory or epiphenomenal. He castigated scientism for its intellectual imperialism.
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Words like "random" and "natural" are often used to express a personal view on matters of ultimate causation, and that gets us into "the areas of the dead."
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Though insightful into the tactics of what they call the "anti-scientific left," Alex Berezow and Hank Campbell's book Science Left Behind has some serious flaws.
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"I read over the 'provisionally accepted' paper. It is obvious to me, non-mathematician, that it was completely incoherent, and never would have made it."
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Spiders are good for scaring people at Halloween, but they're really intelligently designed animals more scared of us than we are of them, with eight eyes to alert them of our approach.
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