Dr. David Berlinski: Accounting for Variations (Clip 3)

The producers of the critically-acclaimed documentary "Icons of Evolution" sat down for an interview with Dr. Berlinski. This is a clip from that interview.

David Berlinski was raised in New York City, educated at Columbia College and recieved his Ph.D in philosophy from Princeton University. He later became a Fellow of the Faculty in Mathematics and a Post Doctoral Fellow in molecular biology at Columbia University.

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[sydtocreation]

I like how this guys ego is higher than gods.

[PiltdownSuperman]

@SEEANDPEA The theory of phlogiston also lasted a long time. People believed in it despite the evidence, then it was modified, eventually just a footnote in bad science history. Which is where the bad philosophy of evolution belongs.

[PiltdownSuperman]

@SEEANDPEA And you are scientifically dismissing creationism on the grounds of "because I said so", not from any scientific basis. Here's a thought: Follow where the evidence leads, instead of locking into fundamentalist evolutionary presuppositions and blindly following the faith-based tendentious "evidence" of evolution.

[ttcmp0]

Using computer programs to refute evolution...right. Computers even have trouble calculating the 3-body problem - we always have to make great approximations. So trying to calculate few hundred millions worth of calculations on millions or billions of molecules.. Not gonna happen.

Still - I've seen some simple algorithms that show simple 2D lifeforms evolve quite nicely to their environment. Perhaps he just did not try hard enough when he was writing his software, or I missed his point..

[vdizhoor]

@BackwoodsBoy30 evolution never occurs, it is always there. It guides species to become better through generations, cheetas faster, people kinder, smarter. it is life figuiring itself out. Always constrained, always free. It took selfish creatures (us) and Patiently guides them toward compassion and love. It is unhindered by a corruptible Ego. Design is not Intelligent. Design Is Beautiful.

[dragknuckle]

@SEEANDPEA

That is a political argument, not a scientific one.

[SEEANDPEA]

@dragknuckle

But the fact that Theory of Evolution has withstood time to this date says something about it.

[SEEANDPEA]

@vdizhoor

There is a saying and I think it to be true that math is an exact science.

[SEEANDPEA]

@ruthamyallan1

I wonder if what your stated is entirely true about "survival of the fittest."

[SEEANDPEA]

@85Aheadstix

creationist theory is more like a supposition and just a mere supposition...