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David Klinghoffer

Date
February 16, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Ethics
Linguistics
Mathematics
Philosophy
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, __edited, Ben Shapiro, climate change, coronavirus, First World War, future, Homo Deus, Human Nature (book), Incarnation, intellectuals, Ivy League, Jonathan Swift, Malcolm Muggeridge, Martin Luther King, Michael Aeschliman, Middle East, National Review, Steven Pinker, Sunday Special, T.S. Eliot, The Better Angels of Our Nature}

Michael Aeschliman in National Review — Berlinski Detonates “Fatuous, Flattering” Optimism

_{David Klinghoffer
February 16, 2020

Bioethics, Biology, Ethics, Linguistics, Mathematics, Philosophy

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From climate change to the coronavirus, one tendency among writers and commentators is to an urgent, insatiable, almost sexual desire to cast unwarranted terror over other people. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 28, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Science Education
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, __edited, barbarism, Ben Shapiro, Columbia University, Communism, David Berlinski, Enlightenment, evolution, First World War, French Revolution, genocide, Human Nature (book), modern life, Nazism, Neanderthals, social status, Stanford University, Steven Pinker, Sunday Special, taboos, tattooing}

#5 of Our Top Stories of 2019: Shapiro, Berlinski on the Reversion to the Primitive in Modern Life

_{David Klinghoffer
December 28, 2019

Bioethics, Evolution, Science Education

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Their conversation is so full of treasures, it’s hard to distill it down to an essence. But I’ll try. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 25, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Science Education
Tagged
, __edited, barbarism, Ben Shapiro, Columbia University, Communism, David Berlinski, Enlightenment, evolution, First World War, French Revolution, genocide, Human Nature (book), modern life, Nazism, Neanderthals, social status, Stanford University, Steven Pinker, Sunday Special, taboos, tattooing}

Ben Shapiro and David Berlinski on the Reversion to the Primitive in Modern Life

_{David Klinghoffer
November 25, 2019

Bioethics, Evolution, Science Education

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Their conversation is so full of treasures, it’s hard to distill it down to an essence. But I’ll try. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 24, 2019

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Faith & Science
Physics
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, __edited, astrology, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Claremont Review of Books, David Gelernter, DNA, idolatry, Jeffrey Epstein, materialism, Michael Egnor, New Atheism, Psalms, scientism, Silicon Valley, Steven Pinker, transhumanism, Yale University, Yuval Harari}

David Goldman on Gelernter’s Darwin Apostasy

_{David Klinghoffer
September 24, 2019

Biology, Evolution, Faith & Science, Physics

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Against the backdrop of materialist science’s failure, what accounts for the rise of modern determinist mythologies, led by astrology and transhumanism? Read More ›

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
May 14, 2019

Categories
Biology
Science Reporting
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, __k-review, atheism, Charles Darwin, conservatism, Darwin Devolves, Darwinism, infanticide, J.B.S. Haldane, Jerry Coyne, John Maynard Smith, Joseph Stalin, National Review, Northern Illinois University, Northwestern University, On the Origin of Species, Politics, Razib Khan, Richard Lenski, Sigmund Freud, Stephen Jay Gould, Steven Pinker}

Déjà Vu at National Review

_{Michael Behe
May 14, 2019

Biology, Science Reporting

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Some guy once wrote that there’s nothing new under the sun. He must have had political conservatives’ pro-Darwin arguments in mind. Read More ›

Golden Sunset Reflecting On A Breaking Ocean Wave

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 3, 2018

Categories
Epistemology
History of Science
Metaphysics
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, __edited, Alvin Plantinga, Aristotelianism, Big Bang, causation, Ed Feser, Enlightenment, Francis Bacon, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Isaac Newton, knowledge, Maimonides, materialism, nature, New Atheists, Newtonian mechanics, philosophers, power, René Descartes, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Scientific Enlightenment, scientific revolution, scientists, secular humanism, Steven Pinker, Thomas Aquinas}

Knowledge, Power, and the Scientific Enlightenment

_{Michael Egnor
October 3, 2018

Epistemology, History of Science, Metaphysics

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A focus on power, to the neglect of wisdom, is fine, as long as it is recognized that mechanical philosophy is incomplete. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
July 12, 2018

Categories
Ethics
Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology
Tagged
, __k-review, adultery, anti-Semitism, behavior, Darwinian theory, E.O. Wilson, evolution, evolutionary ethics, Harvard University, homosexuality, humans, infanticide, just-so stories, Kevin MacDonald, race, Racism, rape, stereotypes, Steven Pinker, The Death of Humanity}

Darwinian Theory and Evolutionary Psychology

_{Richard Weikart
July 12, 2018

Ethics, Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology

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Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker asserts that infanticide has biological roots. He claims that ancient humans were picky about which babies they would raise to maturity. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
July 11, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology
Psychology
Tagged
, __k-review, alt-right, anti-Semitism, Darwinian theory, Europeans, From Darwin to Hitler, history, inequality, James Watson, Jews, Kevin MacDonald, Nazism, neo-Nazism, Nobel Prize, Racism, Richard Spencer, Steven Pinker}

Evolutionary Psychology Grapples with Racism and Anti-Semitism

_{Richard Weikart
July 11, 2018

Bioethics, Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology, Psychology

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Kevin MacDonald is trying to resurrect this troubling legacy of Darwinian theory. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
February 26, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Evolution
Psychology
Tagged
, __k-review, anthropology, Arthur Schopenhauer, assumptions, biases, Charles Darwin, Christa Schroeder, cranial capacity, Darwinism, Europeans, evolution, human origins, ideology, Konrad Lorenz, Nobel Prize, prejudices, pseudoscience, racial inequality, Racism, religion, scientific racism, scientists, Steven Pinker, The Descent of Man}

On the History of Darwinism, Scientific Racism, and Hitler, Is Steven Pinker Objective?

_{Richard Weikart
February 26, 2018

Bioethics, Biology, Evolution, Psychology

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Pinker is right that we should formulate our ideas based on evidence, not bias and preconceptions. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
February 24, 2018

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
Tagged
, __k-review, “consensus science”, altruism, assumptions, bias, Chronicle of Higher Education, David Hume, Harvard University, Lord Kelvin, objectivity, postmodernism, replication crisis, science, Steven Pinker, subjectivity, thermodynamics}

Is Science Objective? Steven Pinker’s Counterattack Against the “War on Science”

_{Richard Weikart
February 24, 2018

Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology

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Unfortunately, Pinker’s overweening faith in science as a reliable path to the truth has its own problems. Read More ›