Berlinski, who appeared on “Life, Liberty & Levin” last Sunday 4.29.18, is best known for his many books including “The Devil’s Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions”.
Berlinski is an agnostic secular Jew who lives in Paris, but in his interviews, debates, and writings he has conceded the probability of an “intelligent designer”. He respects Darwin as a scientist of his time but sees great problems with Darwinism in light of more recent scientific discoveries including DNA. He particularly sees a quantum leap of massive proportions between humans and monkeys which is inconsistent with Darwin‘s theory. He also notes that modern physicists have a problem with Darwinism.
He sees militant atheism as arrogant as biological/scientific methodology has no means of exploring anything beyond the material realm.
Berlinski received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Princeton University and was later a postdoctoral fellow in mathematics and molecular biology at Columbia University. He has authored works on systems analysis, differential topology, theoretical biology, analytic philosophy, and the philosophy of mathematics, as well as three novels. He has also taught philosophy, mathematics and English at Stanford, Rutgers, the City University of New York and the Université de Paris. In addition, he has held research fellowships at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria and the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques.
SEE: Life, Liberty and Levin 4.29.18
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My favorite Interviews with Berlinski appear in the Video Series “Does God Exist?” with Stephen Meyer, Ph.D. Cambridge, available free of cost on Amazon Prime Video. https://www.amazon.com/Does-God-Exist-Building…/…/1589973399
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