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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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Artificial General Intelligence: An Idol for Destruction

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

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

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 ›
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 ›
Bruegel’s Tower of Babel
The Tower of Babel, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, via Wikimedia Commons.

Science After Babel: An Exercise in Self-Criticism

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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Photo: David Berlinski via the Ben Shapiro Show.

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

"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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Image: Dante, by Domenico di Michelino, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

John Lennox: Dante, Glaucus, and Transhumanism

Meanwhile, the will to become gods — transhumanism in a nutshell — still beckons with its ancient glamour. Read More ›
Charles Darwin statue Shrewsbury
Charles Darwin statue Shrewsbury
Photo: Statue of Charles Darwin, Shrewsbury Library, by Bs0u10e01 / CC BY-SA.

Darwin, Lyell, and a Tale of Two Faiths

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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Wesley Smith on Transhumanism — A New Tower of Babel

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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Lennox, Marks: Uploading the Mind Would Mean Eternal Death

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 ›

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