“New religionists, such as Williams, Dawkins, and Wilson, regard people and all other organisms as the helpless puppets, tools, or vehicles, of hidden purposive agents of more than human power and intelligence, whose only goal is to produce the largest… — 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
