Category: Culture & Ethics
An Evolutionary Psychologist’s False Premise
David Barash huffs, “Gottlieb and his ilk are quite simply on the wrong side of history and of scientific truth.”
With Evolutionary Psychology, “It Ain’t Necessarily So,” Says New Yorker Writer
Anthony Gottlieb waves regular evolution (of the body) through all the checkpoints while (humorously) examining claims that various forms of behavior are “adaptive.”
Newly Discovered Notes Reveal C.S. Lewis’s Early Doubts about Darwin
Previously unpublished notes of C.S. Lewis shed light on his views about Darwin and skepticism of Darwinian evolution.
Shock! Intelligent Design, Darwin Doubts Get Respectful Discussion in New York Review of Books
This has been a week of nice surprises!
E. O. Wilson Stumbles on His Conscience
In his new book, E. O. Wilson can’t avoid moralizing. But if everything in life is produced by evolution, what’s there to care about?