2. The Evolution
Controversy

  


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Civilization, Darwinism, and Theories of Evolution
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 2. The Evolution Controversy  
      2.1 The Legacy of Darwinism  
         2.1.1 Debates and Darwin Trials 
         2.1.2 Evolution and Ethics
         2.1.3 The Metaphysics of Evolution
         2.1.4 Is There A Science Of History? 
      2.2 Beyond Natural Selection 
         2.2.1 The Limits of Observation  
         2.2.2 Random Evolution: Climbing Mt. Improbable?
         2.2.3 Punctuated Equilibrium
         2.2.4 Natural Selection and The Oedipus Paradox  
NOTES  
      2.3 Visions of A Ghostseer  
         2.3.1 Wallace's Second Opinion  
         2.3.2 Theism/Atheism: The 'God' Debates  
         2.3.3 Critique of Evolutionary Economy  
         2.3.4 The Evolution of Evolution  
         2.3.5 The Science of Freedom  
            

 The Evolution Controversy
       The second chapter reviews the 'legacy of Darwinism' and the problems with the theory of natural selection. The material lays the foundation for the whole book with discussions of the design argument, the evolution of ethics, Social Darwinism, the problem of observation in relation to theory, e.g. natural selection, the fallacies of 'climbing Mt. Improbable', and the significance of punctuated equilibrium. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the 'metaphysics of evolution', and the light thrown on the Darwin debate by the Kantian 'critique of reason'. 
 
 


 

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