tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post113674849703188125..comments2024-03-14T11:50:14.761-04:00Comments on DarwinCatholic: Fideist and Materialist?Darwinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08572976822786862149noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-1136840899973893962006-01-09T16:08:00.000-05:002006-01-09T16:08:00.000-05:00mrsdrp, that's a pretty ridiculous straw man. Nam...mrsdrp, that's a pretty ridiculous straw man. Name me one biologist, atheist or otherwise, who denies Dolo's Law, or thinks there are no causal conseuqneces to any particular directions or "good tricks." Your claims are almost certianly a misunderstanding of the actual terms and issues under debate (which generally concern ideas of whether particular directions are inevitable, whether complexity is an overall direction or just the outcome of variance, and so on)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-1136828976826171692006-01-09T12:49:00.000-05:002006-01-09T12:49:00.000-05:00There are plenty of evolutionary biologists who wo...There are plenty of evolutionary biologists who would argue that it is completely random. These are almost always the rabid atheists who cannot bear the thought of directionality to evolution. However, it doesn't take much of a thought experiment to see that some characters, once evolved, are not likely to ever face a pressure to de-evolve. Intellegence seems the most obvious.Jennyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17838676594500396265noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-1136769201513455922006-01-08T20:13:00.000-05:002006-01-08T20:13:00.000-05:00I'm also hoping that Barr responds to Cardinal Sch...I'm also hoping that Barr responds to Cardinal Schonborn's piece in this month's First Things.<BR/><BR/>The one main problem I see with the Cardinal's piece is his claim that Natural Selection is purely random. I know of no living evolutionary biologist who would agree with this. However, in looking into some related articles, I'm wondering whether he bases this on the writings of Jacques Monod, the French biologist (since deceased). His book Chance and Necessity was written in the 1970s, and there's no question that Monod had no problem with bald anti-metaphysical statements....John Farrellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18280296574996987228noreply@blogger.com