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David Berlinski, a senior fellow at Discovery Institute, writes about three profound mysteries: the existence of the human mind, the existence and diversity of living creatures, and the existence of matter. His other books include: The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions, Newton's Gift, and A Tour of the Calculus.
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Pages 557
Dimensions: Length: 1" Width: 6" Height: 8.75"
Weight: 1.95 lbs.
Binding Softcover
Release Date Oct 1, 2009
ISBN 0979014123
EAN 9780979014123
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 | A Free Thinker in the Best Sense Dec 23, 2009 |
The inimitable David Berlinksi, mathematician and literary stylist, is a free thinker--not in the common sense of skeptics who revel in denying religion on principle, but in the sense of assessing arguments on the basis of evidence, not on the basis of mere consensus or social pressure. He long ago found Darwin evidentially challenged and began to say so--cutting against the grain.
He continues to say so, and so educates his readers in critical thinking and good writing. May his number increase. If you are tired of the stereotypical and monotonous defenses of Darwinism and denunciations of intelligent design that clutter and litter the press, read this important book. If you read nothing else, consult, "The Deniable Darwin," an essay in Commentary that rocked the readership in 1996.
By the way, Dr. Berlinksi is neither a Christian nor a practicing Jew. But even if he were one or the other (or a member of any other religion) it would make no difference for the force of his arguments. To think otherwise is to commit the fallacy of poisoning the well. | | | | David Berlinski, Critic of Contemporary Science and Scientists Dec 3, 2009 |
In the essays in this book, David Berlinski turns the skeptical eye of science upon science itself. Such criticism of science, which has never been encouraged by the scientific community, is especially necessary at this time, when the traditional skepticism of science has been dramatically transformed. For under the influence of Darwinism in biology, cosmology, and psychology, credulity has become a virtue and incredulity a vice.
Jerry Coyne states peremptorily on page 231 of his book Why Evolution is True that "evolution operates in a purposeless, materialistic way," through random mutation and natural selection. But most people in human history would have disagreed that the natural world can be understood in purely material terms and as devoid of purpose or intelligence. Kenneth Miller in Only a Theory worries that the notion of intelligence in nature could lead to a closing of the scientific mind. But everyone from Anaxagoras to Aristotle to Leonardo to Newton to Leibniz to Faraday to Maxwell to Einstein has thought that the natural world displays intelligence. That there is nothing in reality except matter is not a conclusion of any science, nor is it a conclusion of science that there is no causation beyond physical causation.
It is against the unthinking dogmatism of Coyne, Miller, and most other publishing scientists that Berlinski argues. In The Deniable Darwin he turns his penetrating, erudite, and skeptical mind not only upon the scientific influence of Darwin, but also upon the unscientific spirit that he engendered. My personal favorite in this collection is The End of Materialist Science, which has been incorporated in slightly altered form as the final chapter of his excellent book The Advent of the Algorithm. The repartee contained in the three articles subtitled "David Berlinski and His Critics" is also very delightful. | | | | Is Darwin Deniable? Nov 27, 2009 |
Dr. Berlinski is an award winning writer those work was twice honored in the Best American Science Writing series. He has a PhD from Princeton, did a postdoc in math and molecular biology at Columbia, and has taught at Stanford and 3 other leading universities. This work reprints many of Dr. Berlinski's articles first published from 1996 to 2009. Many of the articles I have read in their original, including those from Commentary which put Berlinski in the limelight as a Darwin Doubter. As I reread the essays, I have noticed things that I never noted before, thus the chapters in this book seem fresh. Berlinski is an excellent writer, although his style for me, as one who reads mostly in the area of cell biology, takes some thought to adjust to. He noted that many people believe in God and others believe in science, creating a deliberate dichotomy which over generalizes but makes a clear point. Clarifying the title, Berlinski writes that what he denies is more than what Darwin concluded about the origins of life, but also especially the spirit that Darwinism has engendered in science today, namely the dogmatism of many scientists that prevents them from seriously considering doubting Darwinism, the problems with evolutionism. The main group that defends this dogmatism is the so-called misnamed National Center for Science Education. His main theme is "the sense of skepticism engendered by the sciences would be far more appropriately directed toward the sciences ... not a view that the scientific community has ever encouraged. The sciences require no criticism, many scientists say, because the sciences comprise a uniquely self-critical institution, with questionable theories and theoreticians passing constantly before stern appellate review. ... Individual scientists may make mistakes, but like the Communist Party under Lenin, [they claim that] science is infallible because its judgments are collective. Critics are not only unwelcome, they are unneeded." Berlinski then eloquently documents that science is very fallible.
| | | | Berlinski's talent for writing should also extend to fiction Oct 31, 2009 |
| Here's a writer on par with the best, and yet he's only writing non-fiction. He should write a novel, he's just a brilliant writer. This tome is an intellectual feast made all the more appetizing by his brilliant writing style. | | | | Deniable Darwin Oct 19, 2009 |
| Berlinski has a very distinctive style, could perhaps be described as "impressionistic". Tries to communicate difficult scientific ideas in a way the layman can appreciate them. | | | Write your own review about Deniable Darwin & Other Essays
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