David Berlinski holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University and has taught mathematics and philosophy at universities in the United States and in France. He is the best-selling author of such books as A Tour of the Calculus, The Advent of the Algorithm, and Newton's Gift. Berlinski writes frequently for Commentary, among other journals. He lives in Paris, France.
"An incendiary and uproarious work of learned polemical writing,
unique in its scientific sophistication and authority. Rather than
criticizing science from the outside, Berlinski excoriates its
atheist pretensions from within."--National Review
"David Berlinski plus any topic equals an extraordinary book."
--Chicago Tribune
"In a brief review, it's impossible to convey not just the
complexity of some of these issues, but the clarity, keenness, and
breadth of learning that Berlinski brings to bear on
them."--American Spectator
"A powerful riposte to atheist mockery and cocksure science, and to
the sort of philosophy that surrenders to them. David Berlinski
proceeds reasonably and calmly to challenge recent scientific
theorizing and to expose the unreason from which it presumes to
criticize religion."--Harvey Mansfield, Harvard University
"Berlinski's book is everything desirable: it is idiomatic,
profound, brilliantly polemical, amusing, and of course vastly
learned."--William F. Buckley Jr.
"Powerful, erudite and often savagely funny."--Globe and Mail (Best
Books of the Year)
"With high style and light-hearted disdain, David Berlinski
deflates the intellectual pretensions of the scientific atheist
crowd. Maybe they can recite the Periodic Table by heart, but the
secular Berlinski shows that this doesn't get them very far in
reasoning about much weightier matters."--Michael J. Behe, author
of Darwin's Black Box
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