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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... religion was a factor in Darwin's theorizing . In the next chapter , when dealing with the similar religious ideas of Charles Darwin , I will explore the precise way in which religion qua culture operated in the grandson's scientific ...
... religion substitute ? " Science is not a religion but it is slightly more than just what it would purport to be . . . It's a liberation really . You can choose to be highly superstitious , to believe in all sorts of things if you wish ...
... religion ; God ; Jewishness ; sociobiology : religion ; theism ; theology : revealed resource competition , 199-200 reverse engineering , 130 revolution . See Kuhn , T. S .: revolution Rex , M. A. , 215 Rice Institute , 88 Richards ...
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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