Intelligent people who behave like trained monkeys, are like trained monkeys, so the similie stands. Especially noted men behave this way under the sway of being paid to mimic the same unchanging ideas, for the choir isnt that sophisticated to notice. Much has changed since 1966, where Berlinski was drawing his authorities from, immediately schooled by Ms Scott who put the spotlight on that.
Imagine someone so much a lazy diletante to not care to update his citations in such a rapidly expanding field, so the trained monkey might be better aptly called paid monkey. He really came off as a a disengenuous fool, arguing points in everyone's eyes he already lost, flamboyant goofy peacock
Berlinksi even admits his not caring or holding any interest in these beliefs here to Krauss,
just as long as he gets paid
"Upon drawing close of a debate he heard Krauss ask Berlinski why he wasted his intellect advocating for intelligent design. To which Berlinski replied that he doesn’t believe a word of it, but is happy to cash the checks the Discovery Institute writes him. Strangely enough, this would be consistent with Berlinski’s odd statement early on in which he admitted that his own ethical orientation was focused on living as contentedly and as selfishly as possible" |
