Evolution’s Mistress: Darwinian Evolutionary Theory and Its Discontents
“Teleology is like a mistress to a biologist; he cannot live without her but he’s unwilling to be seen with her in public.” —J.B.S. Haldane[1] Charles…
Digital Devils and (Chat) GPT-3
“The Robots exact a tribute—a certain tithe of our humanity—to do commerce with them” Prometheus casts an ambiguous figure among the shades of mythic history. While…
Metanoia, Job, and Jesus Christ
The story of Job is at once ancient and immediate to us. Thousands of years divide us from the primaeval setting of this story, and yet we…
Plato and the Poets
“Beauty is a manifestation of Nature’s secret laws, which would otherwise remain forever hidden.” — J. W. von Goethe[1] Socrates notoriously advocated for the expulsion of the…
Girard and the Scapegoat
Introduction On another occasion,[1] I employed Hesiod’s contradictory characterizations of Saturn in the Theogony and Works and Days to inquire into the seeming paradox of a filicidal…