"A self-styled form of Darwinian fundamentalism has risen to some prominence in a variety of fields, from the English biological heartland of John Maynard Smith to the uncompromising ideology (albeit in graceful prose) of his compatriot Richard Dawkins, to the equally narrow and more ponderous writing of the American philosopher Daniel Dennett . . . . - Stephen Jay Gould, "Darwinian Fundamentalism," The New York Review of Books.
A more detailed critique of the Krauthammer piece discussed in my last post is here. I would not waste more time on such an uninformed article, but it is apparently being heavily emailed and blogged. Why is it that the most misleading articles seem to be the most popular? Straw men getting knocked down is apparently a very popular spectator sport.
posted by Lawrence Selden @ 2:42 PM
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I am a macroevolution agnostic. I used to accept evolutionary theory. Then I looked at the evidence. It became clear to me that macroevolutionary theory is built more on a priori philosophical assumptions than on evidence. Microevolution, on the other hand, is supported by the evidence. The distinction between the two is critical and is largely ignored, or not understood, by the mainstream media and general public.
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Did you cc: yourself on that one?
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