Plato’s Revenge
- Author David Klinghoffer
- Narrator John McLain
- Publisher Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date 29 November 2025
- Run Time 4 hours and 16 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Biology, life sciences, Nature and the natural world: general interest.
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What to expect
First there was the genetic revolution—the discovery that physical structures in the cell, including DNA and RNA, shape every organism. Now, says evolutionary biologist Richard Sternberg, we are overdue for another and more profound revolution.
Recent findings reveal that genetic and even epigenetic sources alone cannot account for the rich dynamism of life—not even close. Some other informational source is required.
The idea was anticipated 2,400 years ago in Plato’s Timaeus and periodically revisited in the ensuing centuries. Sidelined by scientific materialism, it is now reasserting itself on the strength of cutting-edge molecular biology, higher mathematics, and commonsense reasoning.
In Plato’s Revenge, science writer David Klinghoffer takes Sternberg’s profound explorations and weaves them into a lively and accessible account of a most remarkable realization: At every moment, we owe our lives to a genome that is more than matter and to an informational source that is immaterial, transcomputational, and beyond space and time.
Critics Review
“Klinghoffer…writes compellingly about Richard Sternberg himself and the controversy that engulfed him, revealing the shocking intolerance at the heart of Darwinism.”
“This book unites the best elements of metaphysics with cutting-edge science to put the threadbare materialist reductionisms of the neo-Darwinists to shame.”
“Klinghoffer does a masterful job of explaining Sternberg’s revolutionary thought in a delightfully accessible way.”
“Klinghoffer’s wonderfully readable book explores some breathtaking implications of the latest natural science in an area—genetics—that touches deeply on our origins, our characters, and perhaps our souls.”
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