Darwin's Biology of Intelligent Design

Описание: The iconic Darwin to whom most contemporary biologists look, including several of my colleagues at this conference, is not identical to the historical Darwin, the author of the Origin of Species. The iconic Darwin produced a theory that is non-progressivist and abandons all teleological assumptions about biological development. For this symbolic Darwin, natural selection operates mechanically to effect only opportunistic alterations, and so the evolutionary process lacks any directional force. Unlike the nature of old, guided by Divine intent, neo-Darwinian nature has no purpose. I believe the historical Darwin to be quite other than his neo-Darwinian Doppelganger. The historical Darwin constructed nature as displaying intelligent forethought; and he conceived natural selection to operate with purpose, ultimately to produce moral individuals, namely us. He thus construed evolution to be progressive, attaining ever higher levels of perfection, culminating in advanced civilization. Why have we thought otherwise? Because of a certain view about the nature of theories and because of neo-Darwinian predilections. The creative and ahistorical misreading of Darwin has, as a result, been quite advantageous to the development of modern science.
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