Tag: Yuval Noah Harari | Page 2 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
July 26, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, designer, fiction, hospital, human origins, jesus, myths, religion, Roman Catholic, Sapiens review, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, selfish genes, unguided evolution, Yuval Noah Harari}

Did Religion Evolve, or Was It Designed, to Foster Cooperation?

_{Casey Luskin
July 26, 2021

Faith & Science

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Harari’s assurance about building group cohesion is simplistic and woefully insufficient to account for common characteristics of religion. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
July 22, 2021

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, African Savannah, brain, cathedrals, DNA, East Africa, evolution, evolutionary biologists, genetic mutations, gods, Homo sapiens, human beings, human rights, justice, laws, money, Neanderthals, paleoanthropologists, religion, Sapiens (book), Sapiens review, Yuval Noah Harari}

In Sapiens, Admissions and Overstatements about Human Evolutionary Origins

_{Casey Luskin
July 22, 2021

Human Origins and Anthropology

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Harari’s conjecture — “There are no gods” — forms the very basis for everything he says in the rest of the book. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
July 19, 2021

Categories
Evolutionary Psychology
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, academics, faith, Galen Strawson, history, human origins, Justin Brierley, Oxford University, religion, Sapiens (book), Sapiens review, Summer Seminars, The New Yorker, Unbelievable, Washington Post, Wikipedia, Yuval Noah Harari}

New Review Series — Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens

_{Casey Luskin
July 19, 2021

Evolutionary Psychology, Human Origins and Anthropology

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Earlier this year an ID-friendly scientist contacted me to ask my opinion of the book. He mentioned a former Christian who had lost his faith after reading it. Read More ›

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Date
November 14, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Mathematics
Philosophy
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, __edited, David Berlinski, Discovery Institute, evolution, Homo Deus, ID the Future, Jonathan Witt, podcast, Singularity, Yuval Noah Harari}

Listen: David Berlinski on His New Book, Human Nature

_{Science & Culture
November 14, 2019

Evolution, Mathematics, Philosophy, Scientific Freedom

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Is evolution carrying us upward to new heights of human goodness, as some have claimed? Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 14, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, atheism, Ben Shapiro, Charles Darwin, conservatism, culture, Darwin Devolves, Darwinism, David Gelernter, Declaration of Independence, evolution, Jerry Coyne, Judaism, Michael Behe, National Review, Razib Khan, Scientific Dissent From Darwinism, scientists, Stephen Meyer, The Claremont Review of Books, Tom Wolfe, Yuval Noah Harari}

The “Fearing Evolution” Trope

_{David Klinghoffer
May 14, 2019

Evolution

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Razib Khan explains why “evolutionary biology is nothing for conservatives to fear,” since “it is one of the crowning achievements of modern Western civilization.” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 14, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Political Science
Tagged
, __nedited, Christianity, civilization, creator, darwinist, Declaration of Independence, endowed by their creator, Eric Metaxas, evolution, happiness, human rights, ideas have consequences, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, John Adams, Kirk Durston, liberty, meaning, natural law, nihilism, purpose, Stephen Meyer, Thomas Jefferson, United States, Why Evolution Is True, Yuval Noah Harari}

A Darwinist Deconstructs the Declaration of Independence

_{David Klinghoffer
May 14, 2019

Evolution, Political Science

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Yuval Noah Harari quickly gets down to business, unsentimentally shredding Jefferson’s noble phrases. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 11, 2018

Categories
Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __k-review, atheism, bananas, chimpanzees, Google, Heaven, Homo Deus, Homo sapiens, Israel, Jerusalem, meditation, Oxford University, Ray Kurzweil, religion, Singularity, smartphone, The Singularity is Near, Toronto, transhumanism, Wesley Smith, Wikipedia, Yuval Noah Harari}

For Transhumanists, a Dawning Realization

_{David Klinghoffer
December 11, 2018

Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind

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New religions aren’t necessarily founded already knowing that that is what they are destined to become. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 5, 2018

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Technology
Tagged
, __k-review, algorithms, artificial intelligence, contagion, democracy, economics, Google, Michael Egnor, Mind Matters, power, The Atlantic, tyranny, Walter Bradley Center, Yuval Noah Harari}

Egnor: Democracy, Tyranny, and Technology

_{David Klinghoffer
September 5, 2018

Neuroscience & Mind, Technology

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“It is the obscurity of AI that most impairs liberty. We do not know what is being done to us or even what is being done by us.” Read More ›

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Author
Bruce Chapman

Date
May 26, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __k-review, algorithms, artificial intelligence, athens, Big Data, C.S. Lewis, Darwinism, democracy, Homo Deus, Israel, Marxism, Politics, privacy, religion, scientism, Socrates, Yuval Noah Harari}

From Darwinism to Dataism: Will We Lose Democracy to Techno-Religion?

_{Bruce Chapman
May 26, 2018

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind

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When tyranny comes it often is introduced as some improvement, or as the correction of some perceived problem. Read More ›