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David Berlinski defends God’s role in the Holocaust: “God did not protect his chosen people…[but] did…smite their enemies, with generations to come in mourning or obsessed by shame.”
Here’s David Berlinski defending God’s role in the Holocaust (from page 31 of his book, The Devil’s Delusion): “[T]he thousand year Reich…lies buried in the rubble of German cities smashed to smithereens,…[I]f God did not protect his chosen people precisely … Continue reading
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Mathematician David Berlinski Doubts Whale Evolution by Random Variation and Natural Selection
Whales, obviously, evolved from land mammals. But did they achieve this feat via a blind process of random variation and natural selection? Mathematician David Berlinski doubts it: . To my mind, the jaw-dropping informational complexity of life is the strict Darwinian … Continue reading
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Tagged apologetics, atheism, Charles Darwin, david berlinski, evolution, God, natural selection, philosophy, science, whale evolution
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Quote of the Day (and Funny)
From David Berlinski’s book, The Devil’s Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions (Basic Books, 2009, 16-17): Why should a limited and finite organ such as the human brain have the power to see into the heart of matter and mathematics? … Continue reading
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Agnostic David Berlinski to Speak Tuesday at the Beverly Hills Public Library
I’m a fan of David Berlinski, and if you live in the Los Angeles area, I notice that he will be speaking at the Beverly Hills Public Library on Tuesday of this week. Here’s the notice that I found: Noted … Continue reading
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