“ALTRUISM WAS, from the very start, a problem for the Darwinian theory of evolution, if not something worse than a problem. As a result, Darwinians have always been under a certain temptation to "cut the knot," and deny the very… — David C. Stove Copy Share Image
“It has turned out, in fact, to be far harder to translate teleological into non-teleological language than had been anticipated by philosophers; or at… — David C. Stove Copy Share Image
“Darwinians have always owed their readers a translation manual that would "cash" the teleological language which Darwinians avail themselves of without restraint in explaining… — David C. Stove Copy Share Image
“New religionists, such as Williams, Dawkins, and Wilson, regard people and all other organisms as the helpless puppets, tools, or vehicles, of hidden purposive… — David C. Stove Copy Share Image
“Now, why is it that the idea of intention keeps turning up in explanations of adaptation, intruding even into ones where it is supposed… — David C. Stove Copy Share Image
“Sociobiology is not incomprehensible, but it is one of the religions which are obviously false. The” — David C. Stove Copy Share Image
“If "final causes" means purposes, or purposive activities, then Darwinism not only does not "expel" them: it builds them into the very foundation of… — David C. Stove Copy Share Image
“Nor have any Darwinians ever given, to this day, any such reconciliation of their theory with the teleological language which they employ as freely… — David C. Stove Copy Share Image
“Sociobiology, then, is a religion: one which has genes as its gods. Yet” — David C. Stove Copy Share Image
“sociobiologists are not merely willing, but devoted, "Slaves of the Gene."" They believe that an organism-a man, say-is epiphenomenal to his genes: an effect,… — David C. Stove Copy Share Image
“Darwinians, then, have never paid, or even acknowledged, the debt they have all along owed the public: a reconciliation of their teleological explanations of… — David C. Stove Copy Share Image
“In fact this ultimate degree of Darwinian faith, which blinds the faithful to even the most obvious facts of human life, is far commoner… — David C. Stove Copy Share Image
“ALTRUISM WAS, from the very start, a problem for the Darwinian theory of evolution, if not something worse than a problem. As a result,… — David C. Stove Copy Share Image
“Namely, that for every once that Dawkins says that genes are not purposive, he says a hundred things (many of which I have quoted)… — David C. Stove Copy Share Image
