http://darwiniana.com/2009/11/08/its-about-time-mr-chomsky-but-what-are-you-endorsing/ History, Evolution, and the Darwin Debate Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:29:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://darwiniana.com/2009/11/08/its-about-time-mr-chomsky-but-what-are-you-endorsing/comment-page-1/#comment-341632 Darwiniana » The eonic effect, self-organization and the Altenberg group Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:00:58 +0000 http://darwiniana.com/?p=35759#comment-341632 [...] Chomsky and The Altenberg 16 Mazur’s new book on The Altenberg 16 is worth reading and we will comment more here when the book is out in this country. But I should note a distinction between the good reportage in the book, and the prospects for a paradigm shift in biology beyond Darwinism, as intimated in this book. The latter doesn’t look promising at this point: these critics are too timid, and will try at best to pin their hopes on self-organization thinking which is not going to make much headway against the ID movement. [...] [...] Chomsky and The Altenberg 16 Mazur’s new book on The Altenberg 16 is worth reading and we will comment more here when the book is out in this country. But I should note a distinction between the good reportage in the book, and the prospects for a paradigm shift in biology beyond Darwinism, as intimated in this book. The latter doesn’t look promising at this point: these critics are too timid, and will try at best to pin their hopes on self-organization thinking which is not going to make much headway against the ID movement. [...]

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