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Is no one ‘that kind of Darwinian any more’? Non-Darwin atheist philosopher/biologist team doubt it.

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… some of our good friends, patented experimental biologists (usually known as ‘wet’ biologists) who have read previous versions of this manuscript, slapped us on the wrist because they think what we are saying is overkill. They told us, ‘no one is that kind of Darwinian any more.’ We’d be happy if that were so, but there is good reason to doubt that it is. And if it is true, the news has not been widely disseminated even among wet biologists …

– Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piatelli-Palmarini, What Darwin Got Wrong (London: Profile Books, 2010), p. 91.

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Survival of the free-ist!Mung
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This seems a little theft-y to me…
Darwinism in action! How could the authors possibly object?Mung
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Link will be removed, pending certainty. The book can be searched at the 'Zon link anyway.News
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So, are the Non-Darwin biologists all wet?Charles
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It looks like it is the whole book. Not sure if UD should promote this link.MedsRex
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"Read part of their book for free here." Part of it? Looks like a scan of the whole book. This seems a little theft-y to me....DrREC
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