Tag: Daniel Dennett
Alfred Russel Wallace: Shedding Light on Darwin’s Shadow
Nature’s prophet and Darwin’s challenger, Wallace’s effort was to restore nature to the “space-spirit hierarchy” it once knew.
Adam and Eve and “Mainstream Science”
“The category ‘mainstream science’ sounds plausibly neutral, capturing the sort of objective knowledge to which any well-educated adult should assent.”
Much Nothing about Ado: The Uselessness of Dehumanized Darwinism
To Darwinians, people are just another species of animal. But when they invent models to try to explain how human animals evolve their behaviors, chaos ensues.
Teilhard de Chardin and the Incomplete Nature of Evolutionary Theory
As Thomas Nagel would argue today, any theory of evolution that excludes the origin of mind and consciousness from consideration is at best half a theory.
Religion, Science, and Evolution: Confessions of a Darwinian Skeptic
As I read through the scientific literature of evolutionary biology to try and convince myself of its accuracy and coherence, I was struck by the frequency with which I encountered “religious” language.