Peter Robinson

Peter M. Robinson is the Murdoch Distinguished Policy Fellow at the Hoover Institution, where he writes about business and politics, edits Hoover's quarterly journal, the Hoover Digest, and hosts Hoover's video series program, Uncommon Knowledge.

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The Magician’s Twin, with David Berlinski, Stephen Meyer, and James Orr

A Conversation with Peter Robinson on Uncommon Knowledge
Stephen C. Meyer, David Berlinski and Peter Robinson
July 17, 2024
In this Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson, mathematician and philosopher David Berlinski, intelligent design advocate Stephen Meyer, and Associate Professor of Philosophy of Religion at Cambridge University, James Orr explore the parallels between scientific and magical endeavors, referencing C. S. Lewis's notion that both were born from the same impulse, with one thriving and the other fading.

Stephen Meyer on Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson

Stephen Meyer with Peter Robinson on Return of the God Hypothesis
Stephen C. Meyer and Peter Robinson
April 6, 2021
Dr. Stephen Meyer directs the Center for Science and Culture at the Discovery Institute in Seattle. He returns to Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson to discuss his newest book, Return of the God Hypothesis: Three Scientific Discoveries That Reveal the Mind Behind the Universe. In this wide-ranging and often mind-bending interview, Dr. Meyer explains the God Hypothesis; makes his continuing and evolving case for intelligent design; describes how Judeo-Christian theology gave rise to science; discusses why the discovery of DNA is actually an enigma, as its existence cannot be explained by natural selection; and more. Buy Return of the God Hypothesis at Amazon.com. …

Mathematical Challenges to Darwin’s Theory of Evolution

David Berlinski, Stephen Meyer, and David Gelernter Discuss Darwinism on Uncommon Knowledge
Stephen C. Meyer, Peter Robinson, David Berlinski and David Gelernter
July 24, 2019
How much would you pay to listen in on a conversation among computer scientist David Gelernter, philosopher of science Stephen Meyer, and mathematician David Berlinski, hosted by Peter Robinson from Stanford’s Hoover Institution? As it happens, and I didn’t see this coming, the four were together in Florence and they took the opportunity to have a fascinating exchange about the recent essay in which Gelernter, the Yale polymath, explained his reasons for rejecting Darwinian theory. …

David Berlinski on The Deniable Darwin

Hoover Institute's Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson
David Berlinski and Peter Robinson
June 3, 2019
Is Charles Darwin’s theory fundamentally deficient? David Berlinski makes his case, noting that most species enter the evolutionary order fully formed and then depart unchanged. Where there should be evolution, there is stasis. So, was Darwin wrong? David Berlinski is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture, a contributing editor at Inference: International Review of Science, and author of many books. Berlinski discusses his book The Deniable Darwin and lays out how Charles Darwin has failed to explain the origin of species through his theory of evolution. Berlinski explains that change in biology is not continuous — it’s radical, something which Darwinian theory fails to explain. He discusses how Darwinian evolution is blind to the …