tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855268335402896473.post1665009960567673689..comments2024-01-23T02:32:28.567-08:00Comments on Darwin's God: Evolution's AppealUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855268335402896473.post-63566207357534588762010-04-01T15:42:56.027-07:002010-04-01T15:42:56.027-07:00From Violet's article:
This idea looked unbeat...From Violet's article:<br /><i>This idea looked unbeatable. Immediately, applications of it were discovered in the diffusion of goods, in the financial markets, in the spread of fashions, songs, tunes, even scientific hypothesis. It was a smashing success.</i><br /><br />This discovery comes about mainly because Darwin projected the economics onto nature:<br /><b>The link of Darwin to Malthus has been recognized and accorded proper importance from the start, if only because Darwin himself had explicitly noted and honored this impetus. But if Darwin required Malthus to grasp the central role of continuous and severe struggle for existence, then he needed the related school of Scottish economists…to formulate the even more fundamental principle of natural selection itself.<br />….<br />In fact, I would advance the even stronger claim that the theory of natural selection is, in essence, Adam Smith’s economics transferred to nature. (The Structure of Evolutionary Theory by Stephen Jay Gould :122)</b><br /><br />It would seem that the very things that Darwin borrowed from economics can then be "discovered" in economics.<br /><br />Another scholar notes:<br /><b>...the false naturalization of society–has already been mentioned. Darwinism imported sociological ideas into biology, and sociology took them back again once they had been ‘naturalized.’ <br /> The anthropological fable is the foundation of Darwinian sociology…<br /><br />…the anthropological fable is a work of imagination, a historical scenario, yet offered as an explanation of one or another social phenomenon of either that time or our own. It is a kind of reverse science fiction, situated in the past rather than in the future. …<br /><br />What claim can this kind of historical fiction make to be scientific? It simply cannot, even in the loosest sense of science. It is just that the anthropological fable appeals to ideas of competition, struggle, selection, etc., ideas of Darwinian biology–or rather, socio-economic ideas that Darwinism borrowed and naturalized, thus giving them scientific backing. Returned to the sociology from whence they came, they are endowed with a kind of scientific aura, and their use in anthropological fables confers on the latter a dignity to which they have no right.<br />(The Pure Society: from Darwin to Hitler by Andre Pichot :47)</b><br /><br />The article continues:<br /><i>...it’s a clever idea, not something obvious, not the kind of idea that everyone discovers spontaneously. [except everyone aware of the thought of Malthus and Adam Smith]. Teach it to a class of kids, and they will realise that it never occurred to them beforehand, but that it’s so damn clever. They feel so damn clever just for grasping it. This is, I think, crucial. Adults also feel clever for just grasping it....</i><br /><br />It is easy to make the stupid or the ignorant feel clever or knowledgeable but much more difficult to actually educate them.mynymhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07095211421748579139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855268335402896473.post-63489689805388810502010-03-29T06:55:09.221-07:002010-03-29T06:55:09.221-07:00lol, cool.
That article is just the author trying...lol, cool. <br />That article is just the author trying to get you to buy his book, it is on a book review website.<br />Just for fairness here is the link to the review of the book that counters the original article.<br /><br />http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/reviewofbooks_article/8348/<br /><br />Seems like a fair website to me.MrThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09000224780914610538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855268335402896473.post-79898776100216348142010-03-29T05:26:30.400-07:002010-03-29T05:26:30.400-07:00According to this article:
http://www.spiked-onl...According to this article:<br /><br /><br />http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/reviewofbooks_article/8355/<br /><br />belief in evolution is just as faith based as any religionviolethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05857956145143080946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855268335402896473.post-5837971857712542022010-03-29T03:55:05.643-07:002010-03-29T03:55:05.643-07:00Dr. Hunter,
Yes, indeed.
I think Steely Dan...Dr. Hunter,<br /><br />Yes, indeed. <br /><br />I think Steely Dan's Gold Teeth 2 expresses it just right: <br /><br />...<br /><br />Throw out your gold teeth<br />And see how they roll<br />The answer they reveal<br />Life is unreal<br /><br />Who are these strangers<br />Who pass through the door<br />Who cover your action<br />And go you one more<br />If you're feeling lucky<br />You best not refuse<br />It's your game the rules<br />Are your own win or loseStevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15246115342112568778noreply@blogger.com