Goodbye Darwin: Three Prominent Scientists Bury Darwinism

Peter Robinson for the Hoover Institute interviews three scientists -- David Berlinski, David Gelernter, and Stephen Meyer -- and they talk about why Darwinism is false.  Berlinski and Meyer have both written books (here, here, here, and here) and Gelernter just announced his own departure in an article in the Claremont Review of Books (here), which you really need to read.  The Bible teaches creation and that's good enough, but it is heartening to hear from these men.  As a disclaimer, they keep mentioning millions and billions of years.  It seems like incrementalism coming from Meyer.  However, if someone admits design, than Whoever the Designer could do what we see and know, He can also get it done in whatever way He chooses.

As an aside Gelernter was one of the victims of the Unabomber in 1993, permanently disabling his right hand and right eye.

When I was younger, I watched Star Trek.  That's not an endorsement.  With Star Trek, I remember all the various fictional aliens coming with different languages.  Some of these aliens were advanced beyond humans and had even more advanced languages that humanity could not understand.  People were fine with that idea.  There is a code, a language, very complex, that precedes every creature on earth.  We can see the complexity of it, and we can't interpret it.  It's beyond us as a language, but it is there.  God wrote that language.  That language at least tells us of a Designer who must be God.

Among many other observations, an intrigue toward the beginning, Gelernter calls Darwinism a "beautiful theory," so Robinson replies, "beauty is aesthetics, so there's something subjective about it."  When that came out of Robinson's mouth, I thought, no, beauty isn't subjective, and then Gelertner answered (at about 3:05), "Each year of my life, I am less convinced that there is anything at all that is subjective about beauty."  That fits with this worldview, perhaps the new worldview of Gelertner, but objective beauty fits with the existence of a Designer.  That was a wonderful moment, I thought.  This goes along with what I've written about art in the last week or so (here and here).