The priests of the scientific community

[Robert]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyxUwaq00Rc

 

[Robert]

I like the fact that we have some very intelligent scientists, like David Berlinski, who are countering the influence of men like Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens in the secular realm.  God works in mysterious ways. 

[phkrause]

Yes he does!!

[Robert]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31MI5c7LYSU

 

[Bravus]

Echo... echo... echo...

[Bravus]

Berlinski is a very smart guy, but he allows himself the luxury of challenging evolution without replacing it with anything. He simply says 'We don't know'. I'm not satisfied with that. Lots of creationists and intelligent design advocates are happy to rush to fill in that gap, and don't always remember that Berlinski does not support their proposed gap-fillers.

[Bravus]

His criticisms of evolution are just all the same old long-debunked ones. Wikipedia sez: " In his 1996 article, The Deniable Darwin, published in Commentary, Berlinski says he is skeptical of evolution for a number of reasons, including the appearance "at once" of an astonishing number of novel biological structures in the Cambrian explosion, the lack of major transitional fossils transitional sequences, the lack of recent significant evolution in sharks, the evolution of the eye, and the failure of evolutionary biology to explain various phenomena ranging from the sexual cannibalism of redback spiders to why women are not born with a tail."

[Robert]

1 hour ago, David Geelan said:

Berlinski is a very smart guy, but he allows himself the luxury of challenging evolution without replacing it with anything. 

I think he would state that evolution is speculative and no one really knows, i.e., within the realm of science.