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Tower-of-Babel
Image: Tower of Babel, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, via Wikimedia Commons.

Materialistic Science Resembles a Tower of Babel

David Berlinski reflects on the seminal 1966 WISTAR symposium, which laid out some mathematical challenges to Darwinism. Read More ›
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Image: Bullfight in a Divided Ring, by Francisco Goya, Metropolitan Museum, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Hemingway and the Scopes Trial

William Jennings Bryan had a hard time coming up with expert scientific witnesses who were dubious of Darwinian theory. He wouldn’t now. Read More ›
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Letter from Paris: Notre-Dame Restored

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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Denying Darwin: Berlinski and Meyer in Cambridge

These kinds of conversations between Steve Meyer and David Berlinski are usually confined to late night chats when the time zones in Seattle and Paris permit. Read More ›
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Trapdoors in the Fitness Landscape: Scientists Revive Worries About an Evolutionary Metaphor            

What if the structure of the landscape is like a block of Swiss cheese, flat and riddled with holes? Read More ›
Charles Darwin, caricatured in Vanity Fair. Date: 1871
Image: Charles Darwin caricatured in Vanity Fair. Date: 1871

Listen: In a New Book, David Berlinski Gives the Devil His Due

Berlinski is at his best as he discusses everything from the Tower of Babel as a metaphor for modern science, to his friendship with Marcel Schützenberger. Read More ›
Louis Pasteur
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All Living Systems Must Process Energy, Store and Utilize Information, and Replicate

Louis Pasteur showed that what appeared to be life springing forth from nonliving matter was actually life emerging from exceedingly small living organisms. Read More ›
Sahelanthropus
Photo: Sahelanthropus, by Didier Descouens, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fossil Friday: Sahelanthropus, to Be or Not to Be Bipedal

On the morning of July 19, 2001, French scientist Alain Beauvilain and three Chadian colleagues discovered a fossil cranium in the dunes of the Sahara Desert. Read More ›
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Message in Matter: Intelligent Design in the Atoms

What atheists and materialists can’t explain is why this fitness is so special, so unforgivingly precise and intricate, at every stage on the journey to us. Read More ›
Notre Dame gargoyle
Notre Dame gargoyle
Photo: Notre Dame gargoyle, by Rita Chou via Unsplash.

The Gargoyle’s Challenge — Remembering Schützenberger on Darwinism

David Berlinski lives in the shadow of the Notre-Dame in Paris and poignantly remembers the cathedral before it burned. Read More ›

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