Books Quote by David C. Stove

“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

“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

“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

“Sociobiology is not incomprehensible, but it is one of the religions which are obviously false. The”

— David C. Stove

“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

“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

“Sociobiology, then, is a religion: one which has genes as its gods. Yet”

— David C. Stove

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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