Non-meeting of minds over mechanism of evolution

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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: March 28, 2012 March 28, 2012; Hits: 3287 3287

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.