Tag: Tower of Babel

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
August 23, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Mathematics
Tagged
, Darwinism, David Berlinski, Devil, ID the Future, mathematics, Paris, podcast, Science After Babel, Tower of Babel, Wistar Symposium}

Materialistic Science Resembles a Tower of Babel

_{Andrew McDiarmid
August 23, 2025

Evolution, Mathematics

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David Berlinski reflects on the seminal 1966 WISTAR symposium, which laid out some mathematical challenges to Darwinism. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
January 25, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
Technology
Tagged
, 2001: A Space Odyssey, An Idol for Destruction (series), artificial general intelligence, ChatGPT, Elon Musk, Genesis, Greek, Heaven, Hebrew, humans, Isaiah, Neuralink, New Testament, Old Testament, OpenAI, Ray Kurzweil, Sam Altman, Skynet, Ten Commandments, The Matrix, The Singularity is Near, Tower of Babel}

Artificial General Intelligence: An Idol for Destruction

_{William A. Dembski
January 25, 2024

Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind, Technology

14}

Idols are always frauds because they substitute a lesser for a greater, demanding reverence for the lesser at the expense of the greater. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 27, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, authority, bacterial flagellum, biological complexity, Commentary, Darwinians, Darwinism, David Berlinski, doctors, evolution, eye, finch beaks, Galápagos Islands, heart, intelligence, intelligent design, Jay W. Richards, M.-P. Schützenberger, materialism, medicine, natural selection, peppered moth, random variations, René Thom, Science After Babel, The Deniable Darwin, Tower of Babel}

Jay Richards on Babel, Berlinski, and “Science After Darwin”

_{David Klinghoffer
September 27, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

5}

Something really came undone in the Covid era. Now, the phrase “science says” or “doctors say” prompts a smirk from about half the population. Read More ›

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Date
June 8, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, Andrew McDiarmid, Darwinism, David Berlinski, ID the Future, intellectuals, materialistic science, mathematician, Paris, philosophers, podcast, Science After Babel, Tower of Babel, Wistar Symposium}

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

_{Science and Culture
June 8, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

1}

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 ›

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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, René Thom, Science After Babel, scientific revolution, scientism, theologians, Tower of Babel, transhumanism}

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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Date
June 4, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Mathematics
Philosophy
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, Brian Greene, Cambrian Explosion, chimpanzees, Darwinism, David Berlinski, David Gelernter, history, Isaac Newton, Kurt Gödel, Lawrence Krauss, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, Michael Keas, Michael Ruse, molecular machines, particle physics, Peter Robinson, philosophy of biology, population genetics, punctuated equilibrium, Reductionism, René Thom, science, Science After Babel, Standard Model, Stephen Jay Gould, taxonomy, Tower of Babel, William Dembksi}

New! Philosopher and Mathematician David Berlinski on “Science After Babel”

_{Science and Culture
June 4, 2023

Evolution, Mathematics, Philosophy, Physical Sciences

5}

"Many will read this book for the close, elegant reasoning, the astonishing erudition, or the mordant analysis. I confess I read it for the prose." Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 31, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Technology
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, computer, consciousness, Dante, Garden of Eden, gods, immortality, machines, materialism, myths, Science Uprising, Tower of Babel, transhumanism, Yuval Noah Harari}

John Lennox: Dante, Glaucus, and Transhumanism

_{David Klinghoffer
October 31, 2022

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind, Technology

3}

Meanwhile, the will to become gods — transhumanism in a nutshell — still beckons with its ancient glamour. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
July 11, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Faith & Science
Geology
Tagged
, BBC, Bible, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Christianity, creation, Darwinism, faith, fundamentalism, Gospels, HMS Beagle, Honest to God, John Robinson, miracles, New Testament, Old Testament, original sin, orthodoxy, Oxford University, Principles of Geology, revelation, Richard Dawkins, Robert Fitzroy, Rudolf Bultmann, theology, Tower of Babel, Victorians}

Darwin, Lyell, and a Tale of Two Faiths

_{Neil Thomas
July 11, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Faith & Science, Geology

10}

Darwin found himself in the unhappy position of having his faith undermined by what he saw as the non-directed processes of geological and biological evolution. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 10, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, death, Emily Kurlinski, evolution, eyeglasses, hubris, humans, hypocrisy, ID the Future, interventions, podcast, Titanic, Tower of Babel, transhumanism, Wesley Smith}

Wesley Smith on Transhumanism — A New Tower of Babel

_{David Klinghoffer
April 10, 2019

Bioethics, Evolution

1}

Wesley has been fighting this fight almost single-handedly, as the media looks on in admiration at attempts to control evolution and usher in a secular New Jerusalem. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 22, 2019

Categories
Ethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Technology
Tagged
, __k-review, algorithms, artificial general intelligence, artificial intelligence, Baylor University, Christianity, computers, humans, Robert J. Marks II, Tower of Babel, Walter Bradley Center}

Lennox, Marks: Uploading the Mind Would Mean Eternal Death

_{David Klinghoffer
March 22, 2019

Ethics, Neuroscience & Mind, Technology

2}

Dreams of god-like immortality achieved through uploading the mind have a serious drawback, one among others. A computer operates algorithmically, strictly so, whereas the mind does not. Read More ›