The Chuck Darwin Show

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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?

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In "The Chuck Darwin Show" Charles tells us how, "up there," a new theory of evolution emerged. Famous scientists--Galileo, Leibnitz, Mendeleev, Einstein, Darwin's grandfather Erasmus--each makes his distinctive contribution. Together they forge a string of connections linking today's sciences to consciousness and the self. Charles has to come back down, they insist, to show us how with this new theory we can find new meaning in life.

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