The Pillars of Darwinism

That was the triumph of Neo Darwinism and so forth.

So, memetics memetics is founded on the principle of Universal Darwinism.

I believe a true understanding of Darwinism is deeply corrosive to religious faith.

And what they re evolving towards is the union of these two big ideas, Darwinism and relationalism.

But the principle of Universal Darwinism is that any information that is varied and selected will produce design.

And yet many Darwinians are anxious, a little uneasy would like to see some limits on just how far the Darwinism goes.

But here, I only want to make the point that the elegance of Darwinism is corrosive to religion precisely because it is so elegant, so parsimonious, so powerful, so economically powerful.

If you want to know what I have to say about Darwinism itself, I'm afraid you're going to have to look at my books, which you won't find in the bookstore outside.

And all I wanted to show you is we can set up molecules in membranes, in real cells, and then it sets up a kind of molecular Darwinism, a molecular survival of the fittest.

Her talk about the aquatic ape, and the link, of course, the link between Darwinism and the fact that we are all naked beneath this we're not hirsute and we can swim rather well.

A recent article on the dangers of what was termed quot social Darwinism quot , i.e. the notion that only the fittest should survive, was equally relevant to the world apos s current economic situation.

To flesh out Darwinism, we obviously have to understand the three processes that are at its core. We need to know how organisms develop and reproduce, what is inherited and how it is inherited, and how heritable variations are generated.

What if human consciousness isn't the end all and be all of Darwinism? What if we are all just pawns in corn's clever strategy game to rule the Earth? Author Michael Pollan asks us to see the world from a plant's eye view.

Radically rethinking evolutionary theory invariably attracts the attention of creationists, who gleefully announce that if professional advocates of Darwinism cannot agree, the concept must be in retreat. And, evolutionists, confronted with this response, tend to circle the wagons and insist that everyone is in agreement.

Reflecting on the legacy of the Great War has also been an occasion for reviving the era s mentalities. In the United Kingdom, Education Secretary Michael Gove recently issued a polemic against historians who emphasized the futility of the war, calling it a just war directed against the ruthless social Darwinism of the German elites.

Indeed, social Darwinism provided a pseudo scientific justification for the American belief in laissez faire (with the successful businessman epitomizing the survival of the fittest) for eugenics (the deliberate attempt to breed superior individuals, on the model of horse breeding, and prevent the over breeding of the unfit) and for the eugenic cum racial theories of Nazism.

Europe began its own American style debate on the origins of life when Cardinal Christoph Schönborn of Vienna cast doubt on the acceptability of Darwinism and evolutionary theory to people who see themselves as faithful Roman Catholics. The Cardinal argued that evolution is the work of God and that evolutionary theory should be interpreted in that light and no other.

Europe began its own American style debate on the origins of life when Cardinal Christoph Schönborn of Vienna cast doubt on the acceptability of Darwinism and evolutionary theory to people who see themselves as faithful Roman Catholics. The Cardinal argued that evolution is the work of God and that evolutionary theory should be interpreted in that light and no other.