Dr. David Berlinski | Human Nature
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- John is joined by Dr. David Berlinski - they discuss the disconnect between intellectuals and the rest of society, the revival of statism under the influence of utopian ideologies, and the blind acceptance of Darwinism without subjecting it to proper scientific scrutiny. He unpacks these ideas in his latest book 'Human Nature', drawing upon history, mathematics, logic and literature, to show how human nature can be not only beautiful and noble, but also ignorant and depraved.
Doctor David Berlinski has a Ph.D. in philosophy form Princeton University and later became a postdoctoral fellow in mathematics and molecular biology at Columbia University. He has taught a wide range of subjects including philosophy, mathematics and English at Stanford, Rutgers, the City University of New York and the Universite de Paris. He has also held research fellowships at the International institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria and the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques.
David is a polymath, academic, and raconteur who is a vocal opponent against Darwinism, and is a sceptic around the science of climate change. His books include Human Nature, The Devil’s Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions, Infinite Ascent: A Short History of Mathematics, The Secrets of the Vaulted Sky, The Advent of the Algorithm, Newtons Gift, and A Tour of the Calculus.
#darwinism #philosophy #science #reason #enlightenment
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00:00 Introduction
01:35 Why Intellectuals do not understand the working class
08:01 What is the Enlightenment?
12:36 Key Enlightenment figures
17:27 Flawed side of human nature
23:23 Revival of unrealistic utopianism
26:50 Reason in the non scientific areas of life
32:53 Public Faith in Science
42:00 The West’s Willingness to Obey Government
46:40 The Flaws of Evolutionary Theory
54:26 Nazism and Eugenics
59:01 The Credibility of Intelligent Design
1:03:00 Can Universities be Reformed
1:09:51 Jordan Peterson’s effect on the younger generation
1:15:15 Conclusion
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I was hoping to God that there'd be a new David Berlinski interview. and here it is, two and a half years later!! Absolute treasure!
"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; fools despise wisdom and instruction" Proverbs 1: 7
have you check out "Exposing the Discovery Institute Part 1: Casey Luskin" and "How Creationism Taught Me Real Science 44 Lucy" on youtube. they shows how ignorant .Casey Luskin and discovery institute is.
@@jamesginty6684 Is this another atheist evolution indoctrination program?
@@jamesginty6684 Just another person's opinion and has no relevance to this talk. That professor's talk is pure strawman BS.
My thoughts as well.
I am soooo glad you interviewed dr. Berlinski, his work has shaped my course of thinking about many processes in molecular biology. And he is so right about the intellectual egoism. You simply wouldn't believe the vanity in sciences today...
I just love Berlinski. I've devoured everything he's ever produced - a brilliant man and so eloquent.
Ha! I am he same way. I search endlessly to find talks or interviews I haven' yet heard
Everything he's produced, such as?
@@tarhunta2111 Best debater against toxic high ranking pseudo scientific atheist evolution pusher of his time: 20th century top rated universities. This says a lot for someone who claims to be agnostic! 🧐 Never backed away from a good argument. Always fighting against incompetent, insane professors with bad ideas. A force to be reckoned with!!!
Accomplished author, scientist, speaker, writer is top of iceberg of successes. His clear concise oratory is like an art form of excellence. One of the best thinkers of his era. Truly endearing. His public audience truly misses him (so it would seem). I know have missed him. Check out his interview with Ben Shapiro: amazing. Berlinski is synonymous with brilliance!! ❤️ Charming, charismatic & more. Wish I’d found him sooner than 5 years ago.
@@donnat639 ^ Berlinski burner account
@@tarhunta2111 There is always one crybaby like you in the comments. Why is that?
Always great to hear Dr. Berlinski.....thank you for having him on....he’s absolutely brilliant and eternally open-minded.
Hear him being the operative word - deplorable audio !
@@alanak3210 don't worry. The content is pretentious drivel.
@@mcmanustony
The projection is strong in you, troll.
“Excuse me for interrupting?” Wow! Never thought I’d hear that from David. That’s a big change. I love it.
I comb through the internet looking for New Berlinski material. Its never long before I find it. I love this guy
Fascinating conversation with nothing less than an articulate genius. Bring him back on as soon as you can please
Great host and great commentator! To me Berlinksi is one of the few true intellectuals of modern times. The majority of the scientific community behaves like the medieval clergy.
It is also impressive that he has a direct phone to the president. Even though if he were to use it now, there would be nobody home.
Thank you for making me laugh..
Me too! And I was brushing my teeth!!! Hahahahhahahah
He lives is Paris so perhaps is to the French President
@@bigchungus2063 😂 maybe all the WEF cabal. He’s gets around. Knows how to command a room full that think too highly of the self. He would know them all!!!
@@donnat639 and oddly he managed to get fired from a succession of low level, non tenured and part time reaching assistant jobs, never actually managing to secure full time employment in academia.
Could it just be that he’s a pretentious fraud who’s not actually any good at anything
He was great on philosophical and historical discussion but absolutely off in his analysis of the pandemic, Big Pharma etc.
And "Darwinian Theory". I feel like he could be a real intellectual influence if he wasn't wasting his time on "Intelligent Design" nonsense.
*_The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves and wiser people so full of doubts._*
~ Bertrand Russell
*_All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in that they include among the ignorant themselves as well as the wisest._*
~ Friedrich von Hayek
*_And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?_*
~ Thomas Babington Macaulay
*_Success is born out of arrogance, but greatness comes from humility._*
~ Marco Piere White
*_Without humility there can be no humanity._*
~ John Buchan
*_I am certain there is too much certainty in the world._*
~ Michael Crichton, MD.
*_There is no such thing as consensus science. If it’s consensus, it isn’t science. If it’s science, it isn’t consensus. Period._*
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*_Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts._*
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*_The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool._*
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*_I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned._*
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*_An extremely healthy dose of skepticism about the reliability of science is an absolutely inevitable consequence of any scientific study of its track record._*
~ Michael Scriven
*_Humility is absolutely necessary for true learning._*
~ Robert T. Kiyosaki
*_Humility is the essence of love and intelligence; it is not an achievement._*
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
*_Humility will open more doors than arrogance ever will._*
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*_It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels._*
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*_The young want massive confidence. The wise avoid it._*
~ Maxime Lagacé
*_I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance._*
~ Diogenes
*_Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong._*
~ H.L. Mencken
*_I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men._*
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*_Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it._*
~ Colin Powell
*_Learn to laugh at yourselves as one must laugh!_*
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
*_In humility is the greatest freedom. As long as you have to defend the imaginary self that you think is important, you lose your peace of heart._*
~ Thomas Merton
*_Arrogance repels. Humility inspires._*
~ Robin Sharma
*_If I had to name my greatest strength, I guess it would be my humility. Greatest weakness, it’s possible that I’m a little too awesome._*
~ Barack Obama
I'm surprised Berlinski isn't more skeptical of the pharmaceutical industry.
Yeah i was stunned by his support for vaccine mandates
Yes - absolutely. I think all intellectuals have at least one blindspot. Disappointed
It just shows that even a smart man does not necessarily recognized when he is under censorship's thumb.
This is 7 months after this talk ... wonder if, as whistleblowers emerge, he is changing his mind.
Same reaction. Disappointed. A dip in the batting average, but teaches a lot.
Medical industry is probably the most obvious evil out there. I mean, come on, just because it purports to help people? :/
David Belinski, is the Shakespeare of modern mathematics. He’s made it entertaining and understandable to the common man without making us feel like morons for our lack of education while being our champion against the snobs.
Steve Martin is a great interviewer. Loved him in Father of the Bride too
Hahaha best comment on this thread so far
I really like his classic song "Seminole wind" as well.
Ha ha. Cute but silly comment.
I'm grateful for the interviewer was "not" that wild & crazy guy🙃
Christopher Lloyd's a great guest. Loved him in Back to the Future.
Love Berlinski. Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas were right about evolution.
I am a huge huge fan of Berlinski's written works. Something about his writing style really connects with me. It is extremely high quality writing. I have read the devil's delusion twice and listened to the audiobook several times... and I wish they had this new book human nature in audiobook format (if there is an audiobook that I can buy of human nature, I haven't found it yet, it's not on audible) so I bought the Kindle version to read it in the meantime. With the works of David Berlinski though, I always come away amazed at the high quality humor that he somehow finds a way to blend throught the books. I mean when I read his book 1 2 3, I never thought in a million years I would actually be slapping my knees laughing at some of his funny jokes that he wrote in the first few chapters about one tribal Chief noticing that he had three less wives, etc, my point in all this is that I'm a huge, huge fan.
He does have serious comedic talent I think.
Berlinski is such a joy to listen to!
I would crawl over broken glass to hear Berlinski in person!!!!!
Old Guard: Dr. David Berlinski
New Guard: Prof. Jordan Peterson
Wonderful intellectuals of our time. We need to get them on a Video Podcast together before we run out of time.
We need way more new guard intellectual thinkers!
No comparison
Thank you ive been looking for new Content from Dr. Berlinski for over 2 years he is a much needed voice in our time❤️
Why? What is he good at? What’s he ever done or discovered or archieved?
@@mcmanustony alot more than you ever will
@@bigchungus2063 Your abject failure to simply answer the question is noted.
And you think you know about my achievements how? That's right, you don't!
He has a basic degree, decades old, in mathematics almost all of which he's forgotten. I worked in mathematics at a higher level than he ever did. I have done original research in pure mathematics that Berlinski would no more understand than you or Anderson would.
He's a fraud who got caught lying about a PhD in the subject that he doesn't have, caught lying about the work of conveniently dead mathematicians he never met, lying about the "anti-evolution" views of mathematicians he never knew, lying about working with the likes of Rene Thom- which can be found nowhere in the works of Rene Thom....
Try a bit less sneering in ignorance and a bit more critical thinking.
Then you can learn about my achievements rather than make a fool of yourself.
Such a profound intellectual. God bless him! Massive fan from Kashmir. Thanks for having the legend John!
What is he any good at?
@@mcmanustony demolishing the godless
I love hearing David Berlinski speak... he speaks as if he's writing a novel. He also speaks with such wit, "All I can say is that, I'm prepared to give my advice, but not prepared to justify it."
I own 3 of Berlinski's book they are all great.
I wanted to be a poet. I followed an internist for a summer when I was fifteen. College was almost a disaster, too many choices. I also spent a year in NYC working in the commercial lighting industry, where I saw people who worked themselves to death. I asked myself, what does a twenty year old know about life to write poetry? So 13 years later I finished my additional schooling and two residencies and practiced specialty (Thoracic and Vascular Surgery) for 25 years. Now, I'm finishing 2 novels, one of short stories. I am yet to publish... I listen to these things in between writing.
He's an extraordinarily well-read, widely experienced, and independently thinking person. Conversations with him are always fascinating.
He’s not even well read in what he pretends is his speciality: mathematics.
He’s a ludicrous, pompous fraud. Nothing more
David is one of my heroes.
that red phone says it all . this guy is real
Diamond princess….there we already established everything we needed to know about the illness.
Interesting conversation. Thanks for that.
"Everything to know" does not exist in scientific thought. But it frequently exists among those who are observers only.
I like Berlinski and appreciate this interview.
Brilliant discussion
I love David Berlinski.
Does anyone know where to get a hold of the Dostoevsky essay, “Why is everyone here lying?” that he references near the end?
'Something About Lying', 1873 included in 'A Writer's Diary, Volume 1. The quote is in there, according to the librarian that found it for me.
Well I just enjoy listening to David. Universal common descent has no feasible mechanism.
How would you know? What were the last 5 of the 250,000 research papers on evolutionary biology that you actually read?
Could it be that you haven't a clue what you're talking about?
@@mcmanustony
I know your math is wrong among many other things.
@@rcmysm9123 Excellent. Can you demonstrate? Maybe "mathematician" Berlinski can help......
@@mcmanustony
There's not 250,000 research papers, lol.
Such a round number it's OBVIOUS made up by you.
If you are going to believe in such probabilistic nonsense you should at least pretend to care about accuracy.
Always brilliant! One of the greatest and bravest intellectuals of our time.
Mr Anderson no more interviews underwater please.
Lol! I had that sinking feeling too…🌊
Use earbuds and you’ll be happy!
Dr Berlinski's attitude to the covid-vax fiasco needs to be in line with his understanding of the climate change catastrophe. Both are deliberately manufactured for political purpose.
Was quite surprised how cavalierly he speaks on this. Suddenly ok to blindly trust absolute authority, and forced coercion is applauded, very strange. I’ve read his books, he’s brilliant.
People make a weird exception for medical stuff. The indoctrination system is too good.
Thanks David
I looked for this conversation on Rumble and found nothing newer than December 23.
Dr. Berlinski recognizes the Vendee as the "first modern genocide" as researched by the French historian Reynald Secher. Amazing. As a Catholic I am gratified for the acknowledgment.
Thank you for pointing this out and I agree. I can only speculate, but there may be a greater historical significance viz. the Vendee event, as a standard for the many genocidal events which followed, i.e., the attack upon the highest faculties of the human being, the reason/intellect/ will and the very image and likeness? I do not know. However, if Dr. Berlinski would write it I know I would read it. Regards.
@@tau7260 Thank you. You have laid it out specifically. I only recently became award of the Sacher book, A FRENCH GENOCIDE: The Vendee. Michael Matt of the Remnant Newspapers speaks often of it in his videos.
Insightful
It's overdue for David Berlinksi and Jordan Peterson to have a conversation.
Or David Berlinski and Peter Robinson for that matter.
In the Dark Age religion ruled because this world was so awful that people looked to the next. Later when things improved people looked to this world as a place where life could be livable. The darkness of the Dark Age still resonated and was responsible for atrocities. Hopefully, we are, and will get better. Also the Precession of the Equinoxes raises human intelligence. See ‘The Great Year’ film which explains this.
Excellent discussion John. Why are you guys not running this country called Australia
Because Australia is a democracy.
That was very nice. I took his Philosophy of Science course when I was physics undergrad. He had written a book, 'On System Analysis' which has informed my criticism of a lot of Big Science ever since. Especially the fuzzy sciences like Climate and Atmospheric science whose apparent spokes holes are today making precise but wrong predictions so often. It is a real shame that journalists don't have the basic math to get past the first page and ask hard question.
I heard him waffle about the Riemann Hypothesis a while back. If there's someone who lacks basic mathematics it's David Berlinski. Big on pretentious tripe, wrong on everything else.
@@mcmanustony A bold statement trivially proven wrong.
@@charlesspringer4709 Still waiting for your "trivial" proof.
@@mcmanustony Really? You wrote "wrong on everything else".
@@charlesspringer4709 I've listened to him ONCE try to talk about advanced mathematics. It was, as you avoid addressing the detail I provided, an utter trainwreck of pretentious, embarrassing drivel.
I've listened to him babble about evolutionary biology. Same result. Embarrassing drivel. His "cows to whales" routine should be shown to everyone droning on about his gargantuan intellect. 50,000 "morphological changes"....what a pack of idiotic lies.
I've listened to him preen and sneer as he scoffs at particle physicists seeking to detect the Higgs boson- not that he knows enough to actually indicate the significance of its detection. It was found a few months later. Berlinski wasn't involved.
We await some indication of what exactly he's any good at.....
Who is the closing announcer on your podcasts.? She sounds like she grew up in south africa.
@John Anderson - You could check a book called " The Pillar and Ground of the Truth: an Essay in Orthodox Theodicy in Twelve Letters " by Pavel Florensky , who is a russian theologian , priest, physicist , mathematician and a philosopher. It might catch the attention of David Berlinski also.
51:39 the European novel analogy is a good way to explain what we see in creatures today; they are a copy of a copy of a copy etc etc..... if anything creatures are "devolving," the mutations are not going to add some exquisitely designed functions to creatures. But the programs within a DNA code are intrinsically related to the environment, where the environment activates adaptations built into the DNA code; beak size, color, etc...
Mister Anderson is the man.
Belinski is incredibilmente brillante
David e un grande .
I’d say: yes. - Jeremiah
Respectfully, Dr. Berlinski's interview, by the incessant sound of plumbing, appears to have been conducted in a washroom. It makes for a very distracting exchange as to be hard to ignore. Yet it goes unacknowledged like that elephant with the 10 foot trunk indeed made it into the walk-up and into his room.
Father to brilliant offspring.
Is that the Bat Phone on Berlinski's desk...? I wouldn't be surprised.
Can the title be corrected for the typing error in the name of the video by someone who has that access to do corrections? The title is wrong, but the spelling is correct in the description, so it was an inversion of the k and s. Berlinksi should be Berlinski in the title of the video as well.
I feel like I understand Mathematics as a ant understands Gravity. But after reading his book on Euclid, at light just came on. Dr Berlinksi has a way of making the nebulous and condense it to manageable chunks. He also most mocks his contemporaries for being too dogmatic in there presuppositions. He’s the Bob Dylan of Philosophy.
Maybe he can explain why people gone raving mad and now really believe CO2 is dangerous for the planet?
The age of bewilderment. Question nothing. Worship scientism. Believe in falsehoods.
It is a combination of converging events we are facing. Geoengineering is the #1 threat to all life on the planet. Playing with earths life support systems like a lab experiment is not a good idea.
Especially sense most plants are gasping for more CO2. Much less, green plants mostly die and fungi again rule the world.
@@friendlyone2706 True. The planet has greened by 16% in this "global warming" era. Why? CO2 has increased. Do you hear this in the news? Nope.
@@craigwillms61 and if everyone "reduced their carbon footprint" as demanded, their would be massive crop failures and starvation -- sometimes it seem the lizard people really are running the place 😁😉
his name is misspelled in the title
It's a shame such a great sceptic swallows the party line on covid so enthusiastically.
Hopefully, you’re not blind about anything, but it’s likely that you, like all of humankind, have blind spots as well. One that comes to mind immediately is your criticism of the speaker devoid of any mention of praise.
@@abpgrace devoid of praise? I said he was a great sceptic.
What has he said about covjd?
I couldn't agree more. I love his oratory. I could listen to him forever, but some of his views are as wrong as a 13 dollar bill.
@@abpgrace I called him a great skeptic. How is this devoid of praise?
Look at that phone, you can tell in what year he stopped chasing the newest gadget.
G’Day, the last reset was 2022 years ago. In society of that Time, in which year was the last Day?
This guy is off his rocker when it comes to covid and the vax
Warning to headphone users, there's a great deal of siren/traffic noise early on in the recording
Part of this discussion reminds me of the Apostle Paul's words: 1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
1 Timothy 4:1-2
New Testament
Scriptures
Sound on the side of mr Berlinski could better.
Sin is the problem of men the bible says, ok we need conversations like this to explore that.
This discussion made me think that conservatives are the ones that learn from history, and the liberals simply ignore history.
We can learned from the past. All petitions are heard unto my Father God. For the God of the living is not in the past but NOW NOR TODAY! AREN'T YOU BREATHING THROUGH THY NOSTRILS BELOVED? Tip of time is thy breath is breathing indeed. Obviously thy lives was DESIRED indeed. Reason why we are breating through our nostrils beloved. Not from thee! But a covenant between a Father God and the son of men. What is existence beloved? My neighbors given from my Father God. Will glorify my Father God made just for thee! Depending of thy glorification. Many do not know the true meaning of GLORIFICATION. BRING ALL THE WISE OF THIS WORLD. COME WITH SINCERE CONVERSATIONS. FOR THE WISE, WHAT IS THE TRUE MEANING OF GLORIFICATION? Nor why to glorify the true meaning of glorification. Is like why you do what you do? Bringing the true meaning of why you do what you do beloved? Beloved do not be deceived. For many even the very elect. Can be deceived. The Tree is known by it's fruits. Can be eaten or spit out! A CHILDS will no mean be denied. Come as you are upon the all dry GROUNDS nor the world. A CHILDS with sincere tears and conversations with repentance. A CHILDS having sincere conversations will be given same measured indeed. Likewise with foolished conversations same measured indeed. Reason why there's Time. Likewise time has an end. Is like why the child appeared? From thy own doings and forgotten the true owner commanded. Many wise of this world will say? The true owner is not and will not come back. Even all these same minds forgotten. Breathing through their nostrils. Did not come from them. Come as a CHILDS. DIZZINESS will be removed. Is like what is the true meaning of utterance? Remember all of you are worth more than anything nor everything that exists! Who else will glorify? My Father God made just for you all. And yet to come beloved. Now where will ye rest thy FEETS beloved? Nor who's thy FEETS beloved? My HOSTS and HEIRS FEETS are resting upon 1st. Love God as a CHILDS 2nd. Love thy neighbors as thyself. These 2 Will REMAIN. It will be hard to show off to God without my neighbors given from my Father God beloved. Without you! Therefore you are worth more than anything nor everything that exists!
the red push button phone
The thing i like to know before spending the time to listen is if the speaker at least recognizes intelligent design and sees evolution as a poor theory at best..then I know their opinion and world view is worth my time. A lot of foolishness passes for intellectualism and I don't want to waste an hour just to find that out.
Although I don't agree with the view regarding evolution necessarily, I know what you mean. It means someone is capable of independent thought at the very least and doesn't care about being ridiculed.
40:43 they DID see it coming. Research "Event 201" held by Bill Gates, WEF and Johns Hopkins.
What a shame that the rubbish audio spoiled this talk.
What a shame the audio nevertheless picked up the rubbish he talked.
I couldn't disagree more with him on the subject of vaccine mandates.
And what is his position on mandates?
@@Wonderboywonderings it's been so long since I watched the video that I don't remember exactly what he said, but I do remember he was at least partially in favor of them. He talks about it in the video. If you want to know what his position is more fully, then watching the video will definitely help.
He looks like a mafia don these days
Climate Change refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns, though no such things have ever been observed. Ever desert is still a desert, and every rain-forest remains a rain-forest.
Were you having your hair done the day they covered the scientific method?
How long is the orbit of Pluto?
@stonyI'm sorry, do I offend you in some way? Have you ever seen the sun?
The scientific method does not include insulting people.
I'm sorry that that is all you have, or will have. But, rhetorically, it's effective enough.
Which means the issue here is not scientific at all, but political. Do you suppose Pasteur asked Bernard if he had been absent from school? No. He showed him the crystals. instant change. I, similarly, respond immediately to *evidence*.
@@Ailsworth not offended just wearied by your denial of reality and falsely invoking the scientific method to support your denial.
But the point of discussion is to evolve an idea. Why involve yourself if you have nothing to add? You ARE being pretty smart, though, to avoid the actual data in this discussion.
@@Ailsworth What data? Berlinski is not a climate scientist, not a biologist, not a mathematician.....just a dishonest, nasty old fraud, a failed academic with bills to pay, which he does by posing as an authority where he has none.
Lol Berlinski thinks the pandemic was well handled and the Pharma industry deserves a medal. No pushback from the interview whatsoever on such an important issue. That totally undermines the credibility and integrity of both. Berlinski should team up with Sam Harris at this point
have you check out "Exposing the Discovery Institute Part 1: Casey Luskin" and "How Creationism Taught Me Real Science 44 Lucy" on youtube. they shows how ignorant .Casey Luskin and discovery institute is.
Sad to see he endorsed the injection
So many people get through life with very little physical effort and just make sounds ...Skimming from the labours of others
Romans 3:24
Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
I have to ask, why is he *always* holding a pen?
It helps him transition from "academic failure" to "intellectual wannabe".
If there's a God, such entity must comply with the laws of nature, and therefore belongs to the realm of scientific investigation, or be totally beyond our comprehension, in which case the best thing is to shut up and say nothing about God, for as soon as we mention God as reality we're assuming we comprehend the existence of the incomprehensible. A complete contradiction.
1 hour 6 minutes in. I have a really good answer. Remove all state funding for university courses such as gender studies, woman’s studies, race theory etc and only fund classical academic courses, 1:08:04
13:00 Then John should read some of Jefferson's observations, dilemma's and thoughts on slavery. Sorry.
I thought it sad G. Washington failed to convince others (including his own wife, who owned his slaves) that slavery was bad economics. Washington refused to sell his slaves because he knew future owners would willingly break up families, so he frequently took "surplus traveling companions" when he traveled north. His first choice was to free all his slaves, then pay & house only those who wanted to stay. His farm would have been more profitable.
I suppose you have to have at least some respect for a man who tells you that you shouldn't believe him. Moving on.
He’s actually telling us to weigh what he’s saying which is great instruction for us about listening to anyone’s opinions. He’s inviting us to read, study and think, three things that we don’t spend much time doing in modern society.
Why oh Why John, do you lazily fall into the intellectual slothfulness that thinks a Ph.D and closeted academic knows more about the human condtion, than someone who has lived a less sheltered life in the real unprivileged world. I think your conversations would be more enriching and enlightening, to have in the same room, a "David" and a person who has fallen through the welfare net.
Indeed, I think the academic would learn something profound, he has not been aware of before.....nor you.
Cheers
From someone who has been on the frontline of ignored human despair in the West.
That's not why we come here.
Hear hear!
We do not need wordsmiths
Seems to me like it isn't John who thinks that academics are everything, it's you who think that they're nothing.
As for there being profound things to learn from listening to people with hard lives, I agree. I recommend the channel "soft white underbelly" for stories of people who have really fallen through life.
@@cokefudge
Academics are wordsmiths, who on the whole never test their theories in the real world with real people. The way the govt handled Covid is a prime example of academics being so focused on the problem, they were not intellectually agile enough to measure the problems their 'solutions' caused.
Most academics have a left leaning bent. Social welfare programs in the west have created more problems than they have solved over the last 60 years.
But people don't want to know this, or study it. Academics are humans just as susceptible to self delusion as most of us.
I think this was great however I do not believe he is correct on societal collapse. Stephen Hawking by far had more awareness of our self destructive behavior.
What's Berlinski say about societal collapse? especially as it looms
Mandates are not good. What about those who are severely allergic to vaccines they should be exempt.
Science does not disprove God. Science might disprove certain testable religious claims, but that's a different matter.
ppphhh his covid comments didn't age well
Disappointing. Criticising Darwinism about its speculative nature and then finding the 'loving God' a plausible alternative! That confirmation bias rests entirely on speculation. At least Darwin explained the mechanism with some scientific premises. The God hypothesis is only explaining things looking back with a goal in mind. Paternicity in action..
evolution does not explain design, plans, purpose of the world, the future.
It is a Living God - creation occurs with every new soul entering the World.
You are strawmanning. If you get out from your own head and watch the video, you will realise that Berlinski did no such thing.
Darwin hypothesis is NOT supported by the archaeological record. Proven ever more conclusively as evidence accumulates. Including genetic mutation modelling. Even Darwin new his hypothesis was flawed. Might explain how ducks got longer beaks but not how major new life forms suddenly appeared!
You might want to look up his CZcams about Holes in Darwinism.
Gentlemen. The sinfulness of men can be understood without appealing to the gnostic influenced heresy of original sin which denies that man can do any good at all. Don't go running off to the opposite extreme. The truth is man is neutral at birth and has the ability to do both good and evil. Not all good nor all evil.
Ha, ha…you have a completely different world view than these 2. They believe, as do I, that man became infected with sin in the Garden when Adam & Eve decided to trust in themselves rather than look to God alone as their source and resource.
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Sin is not an infection. Sin is unrighteous behavior that is chosen and everyone has the free will to live righteously or sin. Show me anywhere in Genesis where it says sin is an infection or that any guilt or curse is passed on to any of Adam and Eve's descendants. Original sin is a heresy.
I think the point they were making was that one cannot forget about the ability to do evil, in the context of the Enlightenment. But yes, I agree with you that the idea of doing no good at all is abhorrent.
Why precious your statement? Takes all the strength away.
He seriously attributes the French revolution to enlightenment thinking? You know, the idea that man can and should be free, and that violence is evil? He may have a few good ideas, but seriously misattributes the philosophy of freedom.
No where in the Enlightenment is there a specific injunction against all violence.
Many Enlightenment thinkers thought violence and repression in certain circumstances, for the right cause, was entirely correct.
@@Ty-nm6qb Ah yes, make you neighbor die for your good cause. Still happening.
This comment could be a case study for the early parts of this discussion. 😏
bull💩
You could actually learn quite a lot of history by listening to this interview.
@@abpgrace i fear a lot falls on deaf ears
Berlinski should write a book on trashing Dennett, Dawkins, Harris and the rest of the clowns.