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Richard Lewontin

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Denyse O'Leary
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July 15, 2021
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Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Natural selection
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At Oscillations: Michael Ruse’s attempted takedown of evolutionary biologist Richard Lewontin (but read the story!)

Denyse O'Leary
July 15, 2021
Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Natural selection
Ruse appears to have been a relentless enforcer of Darwinian orthodoxy behind the scenes, including a blistering attack on philosopher Jerry Fodor, who questioned it. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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July 8, 2021
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Racism
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The Scientist’s obit on Harvard evolutionary biologist Richard Lewontin (1929–2021) notes his takedown of the notion of “race”

Denyse O'Leary
July 8, 2021
Racism
At The Scientist: "He also wrote a seminal 1972 paper in which he argued there is more genetic variation within members of a population of humans than there is between members of different groups, undermining the idea that there is a genetic basis for the idea of race. " Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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July 6, 2021
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Intelligent Design
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Tributes to Richard Lewontin (1919 – 2021)

Denyse O'Leary
July 6, 2021
Intelligent Design
Paul Nelson: Lewontin opposed the facile storytelling of much of sociobiology, with its invocation of hypothetical genes for equally hypothetical behavioral traits. The fact that his opposition stemmed in part from his politics is no indictment; his evidential critique holds its value, or stands on its own two legs, independently of the Marxism. Show me the actual data, he would say, or stop the storytelling. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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July 5, 2021
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Darwinism, Naturalism
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Richard Lewontin (1929 – 2021)

Denyse O'Leary
July 5, 2021
Darwinism, Naturalism
Lewontin: It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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April 24, 2020
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Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Naturalism
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Rob Sheldon on Darwinian Jerry Coyne’s difficulty in swallowing the new Woke science

Denyse O'Leary
April 24, 2020
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Naturalism
"Woke" science is bad science and heavily biassed toward PC answers while abusing the data. What perhaps Coyne doesn't appreciate, is that the same methods used by woke science are used by Darwinist science, and indeed by any science captured by an ideology. Read More ›