David Berlinski, agnostic: latest 2018 interview (Introduction)

by dhw, Tuesday, March 31, 2020, 10:57 (1479 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: From a Sunday night program transcript. A gift to dhw:
https://www.foxnews.com/transcript/david-berlinski-on-the-link-between-evolution-scienc...

DAVID: A true agnostic. His first quote is pure Adler without Adler's conclusion

Nice to have an agnostic making his voice heard. You really don’t have to be a philosopher to realize that we humans – despite our many animal characteristics – have left our animal ancestors far, far, far, far (how many far’s would you like?) behind in terms of our intelligence, technology etc. etc. (how many etc’s would you like?). Otherwise, not much substance for discussion, but thanks for the kind thought!

From “A neutral view of ID”
QUOTE: At the end of the day, the existence or non-existence of such an intelligence cannot be established empirically, is not a matter for science, and should not be taught in science courses. It is a matter for belief, and I have tried here only to argue that such belief, at least in certain of its forms, is not unreasonable, ought not to be unreflectively branded "creationism", and should not be viewed with contempt. The possibility of intelligent design falls in the realm covered by Wittgenstein's famous assertion that "even when all possible scientific questions have been answered, the problems of life remain completely untouched.'"

Thanks again. A rather long-winded way of expressing the agnostic’s neutral viewpoint, of which I naturally approve! And one should also extend the same even-handedness to different views of a possible God (see David’s “Theory of Evolution”). And at least we don’t have wars over whose form of agnosticism/atheism is correct!