09.27.09
Public rejection of evolution, and Darwinism’s liabilities
Another Dawkins book revieiw: FROM DARWIN TO DAWKINS: Evolutionary evidence may be falling on undeveloped ears
Dawkins complains of the percentage that rejects evolution, but has not Darwinism in its aggressive promotion and deceptions been its own worst enemy? And the Darwinian take, confused with the whole of evolutionism, can’t even produce a theory of ethics. Why should the innocent public not turn elsewhere?
But he also hopes that the fact that people just aren’t “getting it” is at least partially due to errors of omission on his part, derived from his assumption (oops!) that evolution, as first described by Charles Darwin in the 19th century, and magnificently elaborated upon by generations of subsequent thinkers, was so profoundly obvious, such a forehead-slapping “ah hah” moment, that the actual hard scientific evidence that continues to be amassed in its support need not be elaborated upon in the popular media.