Tag: The New York Review of Books

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 12, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, Carl Sagan, common sense, consciousness, demons, Divine Foot, eliminative materialism, immaterial reality, material world, materialism, Michael Egnor, mind, Richard C. Lewontin, split-brain patients, superstition, The Demon-Haunted World, The Immortal Mind, The New York Review of Books, universe}

Taking the Side of Science — But Which Side?

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 12, 2025

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science

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In writing that science’s materialism is absolute, Richard Lewontin wrote as one who did not grasp the fatal flaw in his absolutism. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 7, 2024

Categories
Botany
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, bats, climate change, Elizabeth Kolbert, František Baluška, garden, Paco Calvo, plant rights, scientists, The Atlantic, The New York Review of Books, Thomas Nagel, weeds, Zoë Schlanger}

To Weed the Garden, or Not to Weed the Garden, That Is the Question

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 7, 2024

Botany, Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

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An award-winning environmental journalist tackles the question of plant consciousness and plant rights. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
July 6, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", adaptationist, Carl Sagan, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, empirical science, evolution, Harvard University, Herbert Spencer, historical sciences, intelligent causation, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Jerry Fodor, John A. Moore, just-so stories, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, methodological naturalism, On the Origin of Species, Richard Lewontin, spandrels, Stephen Jay Gould, The New York Review of Books, What Darwin Got Wrong, William A. Dembski, zoologists}

Honoring Richard Lewontin, Famed Evolutionary Biologist and Sometime Critic of His Own Field

_{Casey Luskin
July 6, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The quote for which Lewontin has become best known appeared in his 1997 review of a book by Carl Sagan. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
June 10, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, C.S. Lewis, Christianity, creator, Darwinists, DNA, evolution, fossil record, Harvard University, intelligent design, materialism, multiverse, organisms, Richard Lewontin, RNA, Stephen Jay Gould, The Chronicles of Narnia, The New York Review of Books}

Darwin’s Silver Chair

_{Jonathan Witt
June 10, 2020

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

11}

C. S. Lewis was an agnostic before he became a Christian, so he understood the spell of unbelief. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
March 3, 2020

Categories
Ethics
Mathematics
Philosophy
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __edited, aesthetics, Cambridge University, Duke University, E.O. Wilson, Freeman Dyson, intelligent design, miracles, New York Times, pseudoscience, scientists, Signature in the Cell, telepathy, The New York Review of Books, The Scientist as Rebel, Wendell Berry}

Remembering Freeman Dyson and the Enduring Lesson of “Dyson’s Hypothesis”

_{Michael Flannery
March 3, 2020

Ethics, Mathematics, Philosophy, Physical Sciences

6}

Dyson points out that the highly improbable is actually quite probable by invoking “Littlewood’s law of miracles.” 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 Klinghoffer

Date
February 12, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, __k-review, anti-science, careerism, Discovery Institute, evolutionary theory, John West, Michael Behe, PJ Media, Scientific Dissent From Darwinism, scientists, Scott Minnich, The College Fix, The New York Review of Books, University of Idaho}

Why Discovery Institute Has Asked Some Scientists Not to Sign the Darwin Dissent List

_{David Klinghoffer
February 12, 2019

Evolution, Scientific Freedom

3}

This is what I mean when I say the list of a thousand plus vastly understates the number of scientists who are skeptical of evolutionary theory. Read More ›

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Date
February 4, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, biologic institute, Brazil, Bruce Chapman, Czech Republic, Darwinian evolution, Discovery Institute, Douglas Axe, Marcos Eberlin, MIT, Natural History Museum, PBS, Princeton University, Royal Society, Russia, Scientific Dissent From Darwinism, scientists, Smithsonian Institution, The New York Review of Books, Thomson Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, United States, University of Cambridge, Yale University}

Skepticism About Darwinian Evolution Grows as 1,000+ Scientists Share Their Doubts

_{Science and Culture
February 4, 2019

Evolution

2}

Over 1,000 doctoral scientists from around the world have signed a statement publicly expressing their skepticism about the contemporary theory of Darwinian evolution. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
August 9, 2018

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Alexander Fleming, antibiotic resistance, atheism, BIO-Complexity, bioengineering, Christianity, Darwinian evolution, Darwinism, Discovery Institute, Günter Bechly, Heretic: One Scientist’s Journey from Darwin to Design, intelligent design, Jonathan Witt, materialism, Matti Leisola, pesticides, Philip Skell, Richard Lewontin, Richard Sternberg, Smithsonian Institution, The New York Review of Books, The Scientist, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn}

Correspondence: A Father, an Atheist Son, and Darwin Heretic Matti Leisola

_{Jonathan Witt
August 9, 2018

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

7}

The father had sent his son a copy of our book, urging him to read it so the two could discuss the evidence and arguments there. Read More ›