Автор: Michael Denton
Название: Evolution: A Theory in Crisis
Издательство: Adler & Adler Pub
Год: 1986
ISBN: 0917561058
Язык: English
Формат: pdf
Размер: 50,3 mb
Страниц: 368

The question of evolution is generating more controversy and argument today than at any other time since the “Great Debate” in the nineteenth century. At prestigious international symposia, in the pages of leading scientific journals and even in the sober galleries of the British Natural History Museum, every aspect of evolution theory is being debated with an intensity which has rarely been seen recently in any other branch of science.

It is not hard to understand why the question of evolution should attract such attention. The idea has come to touch every aspect of modern thought; and no other theory in recent times has done more to mould the way we view ourselves and our relationship to the world around us.

Basically there are two different philosophical approaches to the debate. On the one hand, one can adopt the conservative position and view the difficulties as essentially trivial, merely puzzling anomalies, that will all be eventually reconciled somehow to the traditional framework. Alternatively, one can adopt a radical position and view the problems not as puzzles, but as counterinstances or paradoxes which will never be adequately explained within the orthodox framework, and indicative therefore of something fundamentally wrong with the currently accepted view of evolution.

In this book is adopted the radical approach.