daws101
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thanks ! It was concise and factual....john west on the book why the materialist neo-darwinian conception of nature is almost certainly false:
"if the fundamental thesis isn't exactly new, why has it proved to be such a shock to the cultural establishment? One reason is undoubtedly that nagel is an atheist, which preempts the usual invective against religious fundamentalists. More generally, our cultural elites are so parochial and inbred that many of them really cannot conceive that any thinking person could doubt darwinism. When confronted with such an oddity -- from among their own class no less -- they are astounded.
One can hardly blame them. Darwinian theory forms the modern secularist's creation myth, a myth aided and abetted by a triumphalist rewrite of western intellectual history. Western society, you see, was stuck back in the dark ages of flat-earthers, witch trials, and the inquisition until darwin embarked from the hms beagle like moses from mount sinai to deliver his revelation that nature is the product of a blind, impersonal process. Everyone (or at least, all thinking persons) then supposedly became darwinians."
it's complicated: John west on the long and messy evolution debate - evolution news & views
bravo!! Thanks for another one of your insightful and well thought out rebuttals.