Community | February 22, 2010 | 9 comments

What Darwin Got Wrong

source: http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2010/02/22/what_darwin_got_wrong_jerry_fodor/index.html

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A new book dares to attack the theory of evolution by using -- surprise! -- science.

At this point, the idea of somebody publishing an attack on Charles Darwin isn’t exactly surprising. The 19th-century naturalist, and the man behind the theory of evolution, has never been a particularly popular figure among conservative Christians, and, these days, the anti-Darwin movement is a cottage industry. In the last year, which marked the bicentennial of Darwin’s birth and 150 years since the publication of "The Origin of the Species," the man was even subjected to the peculiar indignity of an assault by former "Growing Pains" star Kirk Cameron.

But unlike most of these attacks, "What Darwin Got Wrong," a new book by Jerry Fodor, a professor of philosophy and cognitive sciences at Rutgers University, and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, a professor of cognitive science at the University of Arizona, comes not from the religious right, but from two atheist academics with -- surprise -- a nuanced argument about the shortcomings of Darwin’s theories. Their book details (in very technical language) how recent discoveries in genetics have thrown into question many of our perceived truths about natural selection, and why these have the potential to undermine much of what we know about evolution and biology.

Salon spoke to Fodor over the phone from his home, about the problems with Darwin’s ideas, bloggers’ "obscene" comments on his work, and why Darwinism might be as unreliable as creationism.

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Adaptation, mutation and evolution exist, but Darwin was a eugenicist with an agenda. Science isn't dogma; it should be challenged and debated ad infinitum. I prefer Velikovsky.
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9 comments // What Darwin Got Wrong

  • ahappymintleaf
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    • This was really interesting to read. In a bio anthro class I took, they discussed the construction of the chin as a byproduct of other traits that could have been selected in the face, but this book clearly takes this concept a logical and interesting step further.

      I hope science stops being so stupid and embraces this well-constructed and critical change as it was designed to. I feel that the sooner it happens, the sooner some awesome new discoveries can be made relating to the complexity of genetics. So fascinating.

    • 1 year ago
  • rottentomatoes
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  • ChunkyCheezes
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  • Reedalmighty
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    • Id like to learn more about this. Im sure Darwin didnt have everything about evolution understood... he was working with very limited technology i mean you can only learn so much through observation alone.

    • 2 years ago
  • LM807
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    • I'm sure in all of Darwin's writings there are findings and hunches that proved to be incorrect; however it confuses the issue when people pick at the unimportant details. The guy discovered evolution. Evolution is real and as indisputable as the "theory" of gravity. Can we give it a rest already?

    • 2 years ago
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