{"id":1348,"date":"2023-06-30T04:27:31","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T04:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/06\/30\/david-berlinski-on-evolution\/"},"modified":"2023-06-30T04:27:31","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T04:27:31","slug":"david-berlinski-on-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/06\/30\/david-berlinski-on-evolution\/","title":{"rendered":"David Berlinski on Evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KRj_HxO_e80\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Under three minutes<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">.&#0160; Nice production job.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Related: David Gelernter, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.claremont.org\/crb\/article\/giving-up-darwin\/\">Giving Up Darwin<\/a>.&#0160; Wasn&#39;t Gelernter one of the recipients of a Unabomber package?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Part of being an American conservative in my sense of the phrase is a commitment to the respectful but critical evaluation of whatever passes for orthodoxy in science, in religion, in philosophy, in literature and the arts, and wherever else.&#0160; Of course, that is not to say that the heterodox, as such, is credible.&#0160; In fact, being conservative, I am open to the notion that there is a&#0160; defeasible presumption in favor of the orthodox and traditional. If you have no idea what &#39;presumption&#39; means, see <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2017\/03\/presumption-and-suspension-of-judgment.html\">Presumption and Suspension of Judgment<\/a>.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Note the adjective &#39;respectful&#39;; it goes a long way toward distinguishing my type of critical stance from that of the leftist.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under three minutes.&#0160; Nice production job. Related: David Gelernter, Giving Up Darwin.&#0160; Wasn&#39;t Gelernter one of the recipients of a Unabomber package? Part of being an American conservative in my sense of the phrase is a commitment to the respectful but critical evaluation of whatever passes for orthodoxy in science, in religion, in philosophy, in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/06\/30\/david-berlinski-on-evolution\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;David Berlinski on Evolution&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[258],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-darwinism-and-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}