David Berlinski on His New Book, Science After Babel

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🗓️ 7 June 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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On today’s ID the Future, host Andrew McDiarmid rings up Science After Babel author David Berlinski in Paris to discuss the philosopher’s latest book. Berlinski is at his cultivated best as the two discuss everything from the biblical Tower of Babel as a metaphor for modern materialistic science, to his friendship with the brilliant and colorful French intellectual Marcel Schützenberger, a world-class mathematician who was self-taught and, as we learn here, came within a hair’s breadth of being swept up in the Chinese Revolution. Berlinski also reflects on the seminal 1966 WISTAR symposium, which laid out some mathematical challenges to Darwinism, challenges that Berlinski says remain unanswered to this day. At the same time, Berlinski gives the devil — here Read More ›

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0:00.0	I. Welcome to ID the Future. I'm your host Andrew McDermott. Today I'm
0:16.3	excited to welcome to the show Dr David Berlinski to discuss his book
0:20.4	Science After Babel available from Discovery Institute Press.
0:25.2	Dr. Burlinsky is a senior fellow at Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture.
0:30.4	He received his PhD in philosophy from Princeton University and was later a postdoctoral fellow in mathematics and molecular biology at Columbia University.
0:40.0	Dr. Berlinski has taught philosophy, mathematics, and English at such universities as
0:45.4	Stanford, Rutgers, the City University of New York, and the University of Paris.
0:52.0	And of course he's author of numerous books, many of which you'll have heard of, including
0:56.3	a tour of the calculus, the advent of the algorithm, Newton's gift, and the Devil's Delusion. His latest is called Signs After Babble. It's a collection of essays
1:06.4	challenging the prevailing beliefs and pronouncements of contemporary science with his unique
1:11.6	blend of deep learning, close reasoning, and sharp wit.
1:15.3	In it he reflects on everything from Newton, Einstein, and Goodle to catastrophe theory,
1:21.5	information theory, and the state of modern Darwinism.
1:25.6	David Galernter, professor of computer science at Yale University,
1:29.6	calls science after Babel a striking and beautiful and absolutely necessary book.
1:35.2	David Berlinski at his spectacular best.
1:38.2	David, welcome to the show.
1:40.2	Thank you so much and thank you for that magnificent introduction.
1:45.0	Oh absolutely. Well this book, uh, science after babble.
1:49.0	It's an anthology of your essays related to science.
1:52.0	Some of them recent and some of them stretching back a while.
1:55.7	If you had to single out one or two of the most prominent recurring themes in the book,
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