{"id":35795,"date":"2019-12-04T19:29:05","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T19:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idthefuture.net\/?p=35215"},"modified":"2024-10-15T14:02:27","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T21:02:27","slug":"1276","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idthefuture.com\/1276\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Robinson Interviews David Berlinski, Pt. 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This episode of ID the Future <\/strong>features the second part of a conversation between Uncommon Knowledge host Peter Robinson and polymath David Berlinski, author of the newly released book Human Nature<\/em><\/a>. In this segment of the interview, Robinson asks Berlinski about a book by Nicholas Christakis, Blueprint<\/em>, which argues that evolution has endowed us with a genetic makeup that drives human culture toward virtue and progress. Berlinski demurs, pointing to the horrors of the twentieth century and by noting that the virtues Christakis underscores, such as cooperativeness, can also be put to nefarious purposes. The Nazi Party, for instance, \u201cwas a marvelous engine of cooperation. All those Nazis cooperated with one another running death camps.\u201d Robinson also asks Berlinski about Pope Benedict XVI\u2019s 2006 Regensburg address and the West\u2019s relegating religious thinking, in Peter Robinson\u2019s words, \u201cto the children\u2019s table.\u201d Berlinski says he would frame the situation a little differently: we are today less able to entertain a whole category of arguments we used to be able to entertain — theological arguments. As a habit of thought, theology has receded, but Berlinski says he sees this as temporary. \u201cTheological arguments are not going to disappear, and the fundamental questions they address are not going to disappear either.\u201d \n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This episode of ID the Future features the second part of a conversation between Uncommon Knowledge host Peter Robinson and polymath David Berlinski, author of the newly released book Human Nature. In this segment of the interview, Robinson asks Berlinski about a book by Nicholas Christakis, Blueprint, which argues that evolution has endowed us with a genetic makeup that drives human culture toward virtue and progress. Berlinski demurs, pointing to the horrors of the twentieth century and by noting that the virtues Christakis underscores, such as cooperativeness, can also be put to nefarious purposes. The Nazi Party, for instance, \u201cwas a marvelous engine of cooperation. All those Nazis cooperated with one another running death camps.\u201d Robinson also asks Berlinski about Read More ›<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":35173,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","sync_status":"synced","episode_type":"audio","audio_file":"https:\/\/episodes.castos.com\/id\/IDTF-1276-Peter-Robinson-Interviews-David-Berlinski-Pt-2.mp3","podmotor_file_id":"207114","podmotor_episode_id":"186002","castos_file_data":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"00:25:47","filesize":"15.7 mb","filesize_raw":"16485664","date_recorded":"2019-12-04","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"1276","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"full","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2365,2305,2306,2307,2288,2308,1078,2309,2310,2174,2117,2311,2312,1531,2313],"series":[7227],"speaker":[],"class_list":["post-35795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-__edited","tag-blueprint","tag-cooperation","tag-holocaust","tag-human-nature","tag-islam","tag-nazism","tag-nicholas-christakis","tag-pope-benedict","tag-pope-benedict-xvi","tag-progress","tag-regensburg-address","tag-sociobiology","tag-theology","tag-virtue","series-intelligent-design-the-future"],"acf":[],"author_names":["David Berlinski"],"episode_featured_image":false,"episode_player_image":"https:\/\/idthefuture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/08\/idthefuture-cover.jpg","download_link":"https:\/\/op3.dev\/e\/idthefuture.com\/podcast-download\/35795\/1276.mp3","player_link":"https:\/\/op3.dev\/e\/idthefuture.com\/podcast-player\/35795\/1276.mp3","audio_player":"https:\/\/op3.dev\/e\/idthefuture.com\/podcast-player\/35795\/1276.mp3<\/a><\/audio>","episode_data":{"playerMode":"dark","subscribeUrls":[],"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/idthefuture.com\/feed\/podcast\/intelligent-design-the-future","embedCode":"

Peter Robinson Interviews David Berlinski, Pt. 2<\/a><\/blockquote>