The Curated Viewing List... A New Weekly Feature
Great minds are more available than ever, so let's avail ourselves, shall we?
It’s our pleasure to announce a new weekend feature here at The BEC: curated selections of video lectures/discussions assembled by topic or theme, intended to work together to inspire new ideas, to deepen understanding, and to enliven our overall discourse.
From James Lindsay to Alex Epstein to Jeff Deist to Robert Malone to Jordan Peterson, the list is wide and deep.
We welcome the contribution of all community members, too: please assemble a group of lectures you’d like to recommend and send me your list at the email address below.
The first Curated Viewing List focuses on the Logos.
Our three lectures begin with Michael Young, defining and describing post-Modernism and its deathly and destructive impacts on our lives. Young pulls no punches, admits we can’t exit the post-Modernist milieu and we have to fiercely grind out a way through it, and suggests a solution so perfect that nothing can be more perfect: A return to the Logos.
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being. In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men. The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.”
Prologue to the Gospel of John
Jordan Peterson runs with the baton in the second feature, a lecture presented at the steps of the ancient Library of Celsus in Ephesus, where Saint John lived and died. As only Peterson can say it, he tells us that “Truthful speech rectify pathological hierarchies” and “God is the highest value in the hierarchy of all values.”
“God is the future to which we make sacrifices.”
And we conclude with a conversation about Darwin, specifically that the mathematics of evolution can’t support Darwin’s theory on the origin of species. That’s not to diss Darwin, but to be honest about objections to his sacrosanct ideas.
Peter Robinson discusses this with a compelling mix of brilliant voices: David Berlinski, David Gelernter, and Stephen Meyer.
From Gelernter:
“Every year of my life I am less convinced that there is anything at all subjective about beauty.”
And from Meyer:
“What we know from experience is that information, whether we find it in a hieroglyphic inscription, or a paragraph in a book, or information embedded in a radio signal, or in a section of computer code…” he’s also describing the DNA Sequence… “Whenever we find information and trace it back to its ultimate source we always come to a mind, not a material process.”
He continued:
“We do know from our uniform and repeated experience, which is the basis of all scientific reasoning, of a source of information, of a cause of the origin of information. That cause is intelligence, or mind. What we’re seeing in life is evidence of the activity of a directing mind in the history of life.”
We hope you enjoy this mix of discussions.
Please send along your ideas for the Curated Viewing List! Or write to share your thoughts about this CVL, our first of many more!
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