07.02.09
Darwinism as primitive ape behavior
Comment: Huxley’s warning to Darwin
James said,
July 2, 2009 at 2:36 pm ·
While NS is a problem, the real issue is that evolutionary biology isn’t anywhere close to being able to develop an adequate theory. We would still be stuck with the same problems if Kimura’s theory became the reigning paradigm. Biologists should get over their physics envy and admit that they aren’t ready to join the “real science” club.
Natural selection theory has made people complacent. But ‘evolution’ is a very complex subject indeed.
I always recomment the eonic effect. There is no theory there, because we are confronted by a massively complex entity stretching over ten millennia and actively dynamic in relation to complex parts of culture.
Once we see that, at least in part, we realize that ‘evolution’ is another dimension of effects, an order of magnitude more complex than physics.
So it is a bit silly to be going around preening one’s feathers over Darwinism.
Primitive ape behavior.