Question: When does adaptationism stop being a useful research strategy and start being a silly exercise? Allen Orr Dennett’s Strange Idea Answer: pretty much all the time. In Dennett’s book Darwin’s Dangerous Idea Dennett argued: “[Darwinism] eats through just about every traditional concept, and leaves in its wake a revolutionized world-view, with most of the old landmarks still recognizable, but transformed in fundamental ways.” But in my earlier blog posting Survival of the Sickest, Why We Need Diseases, I put forward reasons why Darwin’s “revolutionized world-view” perverts and twists reality. This “revolutionized world-view” goes against accepted conventions in medical science and Systems Biology. In Survival of the Sickest, I listed several “features” which Darwinism sees as “functional” but which medical … Continue reading Dennett’s Strange Idea is a Bad Idea for Recognizing Biological Function