Bob Carling
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>Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 00:08:45 -0500
>From: "John Catalano" <catalj@spacelab.net>
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>I found this recently while searching the web. An exchange from "The
>Independent", 20 and 24 February 1997:
>
>** The nature of our DNA will always lag behind nurture: Gene testing is
>pointless. Our fates are more likely to be shaped by our postcodes by
>Polly Toynbee:
>
>http://www.virgin.net/bv/resource/health/ethics/genetics/features/199702200
0.html
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>** A response: What your genes reveal about you: Nature and nurture is
>not an either/or issue by Richard Dawkins
>
>http://www.virgin.net/bv/resource/health/ethics/genetics/features/199702240
0.html
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>----------
>These articles were just posted by "Christian Students in Science" (CSIS
>http://www.csis.org.uk/), and originally published in "Science and
>Christian Belief" in Vol 6 (April 1994) and Vol 7 (1995)
>
>An exchange between Michael Poole and Richard Dawkins...
>
>** A Critique of Aspects of the Philosophy and Theology of Richard
>Dawkins by Michael Poole, Visiting Research Fellow at King's College,
>London:
>
>http://www.csis.org.uk/Articles/Papers/Paper9/paper9.htm
>
>** A Reply to Poole by Richard Dawkins:
>
>http://www.csis.org.uk/Articles/Papers/Paper10/paper10.htm
>
>** A Response to Dawkins by Michael Poole:
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>http://www.csis.org.uk/Articles/Papers/Paper11/paper11.htm
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>Four NEW FEATURED LINKS:
>( see http://www.spacelab.net/~catalj/home.html#featured )
>
>1) "Artificial Life" - a wonderful hypertext introduction by Thomas Ray,
>the creator of Tierra.
>
>2) SoftBlocks - an interesting new simulation language, ideal for
>developing artificial life applications. One app is described - ZedLand
>
>3) KEGG: Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes
>
>4) Creation 'Science' Debunked by Lenny Flank
>
>----------
>I reformatted these pages to be easier to read and select:
>
>"Online Papers and Commentary by Dawkins"
>http://www.spacelab.net/~catalj/papers.htm
>
>"Online Interviews and Articles about Dawkins"
>http://www.spacelab.net/~catalj/articles.htm
>
>----------
>I apologize that my homepage has become very bloated and slow to load.
>When I get my new (much faster) PC, all the pages will be split off and
>the site redone using FrontPage 98.
>
>best wishes,
>John
>
>--
>John Catalano + catalj@spacelab.net + New York, USA
>"The World of Richard Dawkins" + http://www.spacelab.net/~catalj
>
>ps. Especially note this excerpt from one of the articles above
>(http://www.virgin.net/bv/resource/health/ethics/genetics/features/19970224
00.html)
>
>"Without getting into the notorious problems of defining intelligence,
>we can prove to ourselves that, in a powerfully predictive sense, there
>have been genes for intelligence for millions of years of human history.
>All you must assume is that, by whatever definition you are prepared to
>accept, we are more intelligent than our ape ancestors. Certainly our
>brains are spectacularly bigger than our fossil ancestors'. Right then,
>how has that evolutionary change come about?
>
>There is only one way: genes for intelligence (or whatever you want to
>call the qualities that separate us from our ancestors) have been
>favoured in the gene pool. No evolutionary change in X can take place
>unless there are genes for X varying in the population. It follows that,
>during the millions of years in which we have been pulling ahead of our
>ape ancestors, some of us have been brighter than others, and it has
>been predictable from our genes. To deny that, you must deny
>Darwinism..."
>
>--Richard Dawkins
>
>
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