Derb: I’m in basic agreement with you on I.D., though the cult of scientism does worry me, and that’s why I like the Himmelfarb quote. Science can tell us many important things, but it cannot tell us (to pick one example) whether it’s right or wrong to destroy an embryo in the course of scientific research. For an answer to that dilemma, we have to step outside science.

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John J. Miller, a former national correspondent for National Review, is the director of the Dow Journalism Program at Hillsdale College. He is the author of A Gift of Freedom: How the John M. Olin Foundation Changed America.
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