Comments on: Darwin plus http://www.scienceguardian.com/blog/darwin-plus.htm Heresy! Reviewing revooutionary ideas in science, medicine, technology, and society in the light of the literature Thu, 31 Jan 2013 19:41:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 By: Nick Naylor http://www.scienceguardian.com/blog/darwin-plus.htm/comment-page-1#comment-4846 Nick Naylor Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:37:47 +0000 http://www.scienceguardian.com/blog/darwin-plus.htm#comment-4846 Nice, very good TS, raising the evolution controversy; indeed related – but I would say in unexpected ways – to matters debated in the other threads.

Did you know that in Europe there is a non-Darwinian, non-Creationist school of evolution – so called process models?

Can “purpose” and “design” be superficial organizing principles “emergent” from random phenomena?

Rather than Hitchens, I would recommend Richard Lewontin’s essays, obtainable at the New York Review of Books website, for sharp insights into problems with the neo-Darwinian consensus.

]]> By: martinkessler http://www.scienceguardian.com/blog/darwin-plus.htm/comment-page-1#comment-4752 martinkessler Thu, 28 Jun 2007 00:20:36 +0000 http://www.scienceguardian.com/blog/darwin-plus.htm#comment-4752 The interesting thing about evolution science is that it may appear to be “less rigorous” than “AIDS” science, because Christopher Hitchens had a chapter ( Chapter 6 Arguments from Design) on Creationism vs Darwinian Evolution in his book: “God Is Not Great”. Either Mr. Hitchens was being disingenuous or diplomatic in claiming ignorance of “AIDS” science. I think he wanted to avoid controversy on that subject – strange for a person who may already have a fatwah on him.
In Hitchens’ chapter 4 “A Note on Health, to Which Religion Can Be Hazardous”), he devoted several pages to condoms and their prevention of the infection of HIV. I guess he didn’t want to contradict himself – a criticism of his aimed a most of the Holy Texts. Had Hitchens changed HIV to STD’s I wouldn’t have had a problem with his rants.

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