[asa] New at the Post-Darwinist: Fr. Coyne's star setting/purely "scientific" Darwinism?

New at the Post-Darwinist: Fr. Coyne's star setting/purely "scientific"
Darwinism?

1. Fr. Coyne's star setting: Why the Vatican had to get rid of Darwinist
astronomer Fr. Coyne, whether or not it agrees with any one of the ID guys):

"From what I can determine from recent pronouncements, the Vatican is not
backing off the process of evicting Darwinism ("evolutionism") from its list
of approved belief systems.

[ ... ]

Behe and Schoenborn accept that evolution happens. But so? That doesn't
prove that Darwin was right about the power of natural selection or that the
neo-Darwinists are right about anything at all. And those who revile Behe's
views would be unwise to hope for much better from the Vatican.

[ ... ]

Even that wouldn't have mattered much except that he started getting more
media attention than the Pope and was treated as an authority by science
organizations."

For more, go to:

 http://makeashorterlink.com/?S527236AD

Or http://post-darwinist.blogspot.com/ (and scroll or use the search box,
if the item was posted several days ago)

2. Purely "scientific" Darwinism?:

"The last thing the Darwinists want is to see Darwinism evaluated on its own
merits as a strictly defined theory of the origin of species (with such
issues as origin of life and human consciousness off the table because
Darwinism is probably inapplicable to them). You may as well expect
communists to accept an objective evaluation of the performance of Marxist
economics!

To anyone who doubts this, I have a three-word suggestion: Google
"evolutionary psychology."

You could sink a canal barge with all the nonsense that has been talked
about cave guys and gals, as a speculative explanation for the life around
us. Guarantee: You will wake up in the morning, and the sun is shining and
all that is still nonsense."

For more go to http://makeashorterlink.com/?D457216AD

Or http://post-darwinist.blogspot.com/ and scroll or use the search box, if
the item was posted several days ago)

Cheers, Denyse

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