[lit-ideas] Re: Darwiniana
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- Date: Sun, 11 May 2014 18:47:09 -0400 (EDT)
In a message dated 5/11/2014 6:36:42 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx writes:
My previous comment was actually drawn from Stove, but this account of
Stove's views doesn't seem correct. Stove says that he accepts evolution as an
established fact, not that he accepts 'the concept of natural selection as
an established fact. ' 'Also, his criticism of Darwinists is not limited
to 'ultra-Darwinists' but involves Charles Darwin himself.
For the record, here below the 'conclusion', I think, of Franklin's essay,
linked in the Wikipedia entry on Darwinism -- an attack on Blackburn.
"In the rest of his paper, Blackburn strives to assure us that Darwinian
theory deals only in possible explanations, and that 'nothing in Darwinian
theory allows you to say that because some pattern of behaviour would
increase the amount of genetic material in future generations, therefore it
will
exist'. Dawkins does not
really mean what his extreme rhetoric seems to mean, while Trivers'
explanation of lesbianism in gulls is merely 'speculative', and it is quite
easy
for Darwinism to explain why some species have low birthrates, even though
they are trying to maximize their descendants. All of which is true, and
confirms Stove's central
thesis that Darwinism can 'explain' anything."
A point to the Popperian, perhaps, is that if the epitome of W1 is what we
call the "Table of Elements" -- has this 'evolved', too? (below the
references from Wikipedia's entry for Periodic table of elements).
Cheers,
Speranza
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