Oh No! International Darwin Day Foundation!

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Shaun Johnston:
In modern times we've made two revolutionary discoveries. One is, how changes in physical matter can be accounted for in terms of physical laws that can predict precisely what will happen next. Having given rise to science (how this can be studied) and industry (how it can be applied) this revolution is well under way.

The second revolution is, how emergence of species of living creatures can be accounted for in terms of them evolving from one another. This revolution, despite its promise of how much it could tell us about ourselves, remains stillborn through the mistaken application to it of principles coming out of the first revolution--reductive physicalism.

For this second revolution to advance it should be taken from under the wing of science and studied on its own terms. Tip: one recent product of evolution is creatures with minds. Minds are better studied through methods of the humanities than through those of science. Tell me, does this interest you?

Details: Written by Shaun Johnston Shaun Johnston; Published: January 19, 2011 January 19, 2011; Hits: 3326 3326

From the International Darwin Day Foundation web site:

By 2011 it is our hope that the Celebration of Science and Humanity will be so well established that DURING THE REMAINDER OF THE YEAR we will all want to continue to work to make February the 12th a International day to recognize Verifiable Scientific Knowledge and to appreciate the connection of Humankind to the acquisition of this knowledge. One experiences an intellectual freedom of understanding by realizing that all living things on earth have a common evolutionary history that connects us all. So it is our expectation that we will all continue to work together to expand the CELEBRATION OF DARWIN, SCIENCE AND HUMANITY!

What a ghastly error. Administered by the Amencan Humanist Association.