Mystery of Mysteries: Is Evolution a Social Construction?With the recent Sokal hoax--the publication of a prominent physicist's pseudo-article in a leading journal of cultural studies--the status of science moved sharply from debate to dispute. Is science objective, a disinterested reflection of reality, as Karl Popper and his followers believed? Or is it subjective, a social construction, as Thomas Kuhn and his students maintained? Into the fray comes Mystery of Mysteries, an enlightening inquiry into the nature of science, using evolutionary theory as a case study. |
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... argued explicitly that " I would apply this ingenious idea to the generation or the production of the embryon , or ... argument from design - which attempts to prove the existence of God by arguing that design in the natural world ...
... argument is the tradi- tional Darwinian argument : that the most significant fact about organic nature is its adaptive complexity , and Darwinism and only Darwinism can explain this . For instance , when it comes to saltationism - the ...
... argued that populations are essentially uniform , with selection purifying them of the occasional mutant gene , except where the gene proves advantageous and thus rapidly becomes the norm . Dobzhansky , the champion of the balance ...
Contents
KARL POPPER AND THOMAS KUHN Two Theories of Science | 13 |
ERASMUS DARWIN From Fish to Philosopher | 37 |
CHARLES DARWIN On the Origin of Species | 54 |
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