human nature

^{David Berlinski
April 26, 2022}

Medved, Berlinski Take on Steven Pinker and Whig History

_{David Berlinski
April 26, 2022}

On this ID the Future, Human Nature author and polymath David Berlinski and radio host Michael Medved discuss everything from human depravity, the burning of Notre Dame, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine to the Big Bang and a quixotic century-old pact to ban war. Read More ›

^{David Berlinski
March 29, 2022}

David Berlinski on the Universal Civilization, Architectural Decline, and Fleeing the Nazis

_{David Berlinski
March 29, 2022}

On this ID the Future, host Wesley J. Smith talks with polymath and Human Nature author David Berlinski about the philosophy of mathematics, the corruption of science, the burning of Notre Dame, modern Europe’s curious incapacity to build graceful, beautiful structures, and what’s driving the devolution of Western society. Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith and David Berlinski
February 14, 2022}

David Berlinski on Architectural Nihilism, Human Nature and the Holocaust, and Emotivism

_{Wesley J. Smith and David Berlinski
February 14, 2022}

^{David Berlinski
November 11, 2019
Intelligent Design}

Human Nature

_{David Berlinski
November 11, 2019
Intelligent Design}

Conventional wisdom holds that the murder rate has plummeted since the Middle Ages; humankind is growing more peaceful and enlightened; man is shortly to be much improved — better genes, better neural circuits, better biochemistry; and we are approaching a technological singularity that well may usher in utopia. Human Nature eviscerates these and other doctrines of a contemporary nihilism masquerading as science. Read More ›

Portrait of a samurai in armor in attack position

^{John G. West
August 1, 2009
Intelligent Design}

Samurai Bioethics

_{John G. West
August 1, 2009
Intelligent Design}

Because they are trying to avoid the stigma of being associated with “fundamentalists”, a number of conservative intellectuals appear all too willing to postpone indefinitely the serious questions raised by Darwinism. Read More ›

^{Phillip E. Johnson
November 1, 1999
Intelligent Design}

Metaphysics Matters

_{Phillip E. Johnson
November 1, 1999
Intelligent Design}

In his influential book The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins asserts that “Like successful Chicago gangsters our genes have survived . . . in a highly competitive world, . . . [and so] a predominant quality to be expected in a successful gene is ruthless selfishness.” Therefore, “We are survival machines-robot vehicles programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes.” Read More ›