David Berlinski Pays Tribute to Phillip Johnson

Episode 1274 November 27, 2019 00:16:24
David Berlinski Pays Tribute to Phillip Johnson
Intelligent Design the Future
David Berlinski Pays Tribute to Phillip Johnson

Nov 27 2019 | 00:16:24

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Show Notes

On this episode of ID the Future, Andrew McDiarmid reads from David Berlinski’s new book Human Nature. The excerpt is a tribute to Phillip Johnson and his 1991 book Darwin on Trial. Berlinski calls the work a “Majestic Ascent.” Johnson, he writes, not only brought evolution into question logically and scientifically; he brought the case where it belongs, before “the considered reflection of the human race.” Berlinski himself reflects on various empty attempts to build a scientific theory on prior commitments to materialism. “Darwin’s theories,” he says, “are correspondingly less important for what they explain, which is very little, and more important for what they deny, which is roughly the plain evidence of our senses.”

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