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Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation: Review. |
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Thursday, 17 May 2012 12:50 |
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Britain seemed to need a lifetime to overcome its revulsion at the materialism and atheism it saw as responsible for the horrors of the French revolution. Darwin’s natural selection, a purely physical cause of evolution, seems to have been part of that catching up. But a much more significant step was the sensation following publication of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation in 1844. I declare this a great book. It is a wrap up of the science behind all phenomena, from the nebulae, to solar systems, terrestrial geology, stages in the fossil record, evolution of living creatures including us, to human psychology and prospects for our further evolution. With a steady confident tread it made science the standard to look to for accounting for knowledge of all kinds. It reads remarkably like a modern synopsis of scientific knowledge.
More important, it shows us how the discovery that we'd evolved looked to an early enquirer, 15 years before the appearance of Origin, and established the terms in which we still talk about evolution. More... |
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What Darwin Got Wrong: Fodor, Piatelli- Palmarini. Review |
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Friday, 11 May 2012 15:26 |
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Why is Darwinism so hard to nail down? What’s the trick behind it? Is it mere sleight of hand, requiring for its elucidation the innocence of a child, or is it a fiendishly complex marvel of high technology requiring two, yes two, eminent philosophers to reveal its secrets? My instinct is it’s mere sleight of hand, and we’re simply letting our attention be misdirected from the solution. The book’s authors plump for high technology. Although the text is a mere 175 pages they labor mightily, making heavy going of it. They critique Darwinism both in terms of current research findings and in terms of philosophic reason. But at the end I judged the illusion kept its secrets. More... |
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Thursday, 12 April 2012 11:41 |
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Today I issued, through PRweb, the first in a year of releases about my theme of flaws in Darwinism and the need for replacements. See the release here. It starts:
"Author Explains How Science Alone Can Never Account For How We Evolved: Until science can account for conscious experience and free will there can't be a science of evolution, says Shaun Johnston, author of "Save Our Selves from Science Gone Wrong: Physicalism and Natural Selection." And even if there could be such a science it wouldn't be Darwinism.
I'm also celebrating because it is now legal for teachers in Tennessee, asked by students to explain my theories, to do so. |
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National Academy of Science account of evolution flawed? |
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Thursday, 05 April 2012 10:29 |
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Shouldn't teachers and the general public be able to depend on the National Academy of Science's "Science, Evolution, and Creationism" for an authoritative account of the mechanism of evolution? Could it contain a serious omission, even a logical flaw that invalidates the entire basis of the modern synthesis?
Of course it couldn't. I must be wrong. But I can't see where. Can you point my error out to me? Check out my argument here. |
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Non-meeting of minds over mechanism of evolution |
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Wednesday, 28 March 2012 13:28 |
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See "Take On Darwin" in "Pseudoscience" at www.thescienceforum.com for a non-meeting of minds in a discussion of the principles underlying the modern synthesis. I laid on a juicy banquet of arguments against natural selection and mutation being the main mechanism driving evolution but my guests were obviously reluctant to join me and delayed by endlessly discussing which doorbell to ring. I eventually withdrew my invitation.
Nice bunch, though, and I'm still auditing. |
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