08.20.08
Alternet still confused on evolution question
Comment at Alternet on ‘The Misshapen Mind’ article., plus responses.
This article makes the dogmatic assumption that Darwinian natural selection is behind the evolution of the brain, and then turns around and tries to find some grounds for this assumption in the way that it looks at the data. The article shows just how worried Darwinists are, since in no way can they explain the evolution of human consciousness. Refuting creationists is too easy here. The so-called imperfections don’t change the reality, that the brain is too complex to have evolved by random processes. That’s not an argument for design, but it’s not an argument for NS either.
I have been after Alternet now, for a while, here’s a previous essay on the issue, Toward A Postdarwinian Liberalism
The attempt to ’straighten’ liberalism with scientism is going to backfire, and a new public philosophy that can address evolution intelligently is greatly needed.