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To: <1/1,000,000th%
Modern biology recognizes your underlined quote to be part of evolutionary theory traditionally called "Darwinian" since Darwin wasn't able to define "slow". So I suppose you could call it a third way if you're a "Darwinian literalist".

So then who is Shapiro talking about when he jumps on Darwinians in "The Third Way"? But the neo-Darwinian advocates claim to be scientists, and we can legitimately expect of them a more open spirit of inquiry. Instead, they assume a defensive posture of outraged orthodoxy and assert an unassailable claim to truth, which only serves to validate the Creationists' criticism that Darwinism has become more of a faith than a science.

More to the point, "stochastic" has nothing to do with slow.

543 posted on 10/14/2002 7:49:21 PM PDT by AndrewC
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To: AndrewC
So then who is Shapiro talking about when he jumps on Darwinians in "The Third Way"?

I think you've been on these threads long enough to know the answer to that question. They usually drop out after a rude comment or two.

Biologists are not the monolithic body that they are assumed to be. They agree on very little. If you put a bunch of them in room, they're almost as bad as Physicists.

544 posted on 10/14/2002 7:52:36 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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