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🗓️ 8 July 2019
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0:00.0 | Welcome to Uncommon Knowledge, I'm Peter Robinson. |
0:07.0 | We're shooting today in Italy, in Fiesole, a town in the hills just above Florence. |
0:17.0 | An academic and author, David Berlinski, is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture, and a contributing |
0:25.2 | editor at Infrance International Review of Science. |
0:29.7 | Dr. Berlinsky holds a doctorate in philosophy from Princeton, performed postdoctoral work in molecular biology at Columbia, |
0:37.0 | and has taught philosophy, mathematics, and English at institutions such as Stanford, Rutgers, and the City University of New York, and the University of Paris. |
0:47.0 | His books include The Devil's Delusion, Atheism, and its Scientific Pretensions, |
0:51.0 | and the Deniable Darwin and other essays. |
0:55.0 | David Berlinsky, welcome. |
0:56.0 | Thank you so much. |
0:58.0 | I have to speak for just a moment about David Galerter, the Yale Computer Scientist who just this past spring published an essay in the |
1:07.2 | Claremont Review of Books called Giving Up Darwin, quotation. |
1:12.1 | There's no reason to doubt that Darwin successfully explained the small adjustments by which an organism adapts to local circumstances, changes to fur density, or wing style, or beak shape. Yet yet there are many reasons to doubt whether he can explain the big picture not the fine |
1:27.8 | tuning of species but the emergence of new ones the origin of species is exactly what Darwin cannot explain." |
1:37.0 | Close quote. Now, David Galerner is a leading computer scientist. |
1:43.7 | And computer science is at the very center |
1:45.8 | of everything that's cool about the new economy, |
1:49.8 | about the current academia, it's technocratic, it's rational, you don't have to ask ultimate questions, |
1:57.0 | and here's Galertner going over to the Kooki side. |
2:01.4 | And why does he do this? In part by reading the work of David Berlinski, which David Galerner in his essay referred to as quote |
2:10.0 | essential. So take me through a few of your arguments from the |
2:17.0 | deniable Darwin bearing in mind that you have a lot to answer for. |
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