Comments on: Nancy Pearcey at Beyond Expelled http://www.uncommondescent.com/education/nancy-pearcey-at-beyond-expelled/ Serving The Intelligent Design Community Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:04:28 +0000 hourly 1 By: Upright BiPed http://www.uncommondescent.com/education/nancy-pearcey-at-beyond-expelled/comment-page-1/#comment-288166 Upright BiPed Fri, 09 May 2008 15:21:39 +0000 http://www.uncommondescent.com/education/nancy-pearcey-at-beyond-expelled/#comment-288166 Shermer: "One of the new areas that I and others are exploring is how we can get morality out of a Darwinian worldview. And in fact, people are pro-social, they’re reciprocally altruistic, they’re cooperative, they’re nice. Most of the time, most people are good; but we also have a nature in which we’re xenophobic, tribalistic, and fairly nasty against people whom we consider to be members of an out-group." Geez, were to start. Is it possible Shermer counts Mao in the first part of this paragraph, but counts himself out of the second part? Shermer: “One of the new areas that I and others are exploring is how we can get morality out of a Darwinian worldview. And in fact, people are pro-social, they’re reciprocally altruistic, they’re cooperative, they’re nice. Most of the time, most people are good; but we also have a nature in which we’re xenophobic, tribalistic, and fairly nasty against people whom we consider to be members of an out-group.”

Geez, were to start. Is it possible Shermer counts Mao in the first part of this paragraph, but counts himself out of the second part?

]]> By: Vladimir Krondan http://www.uncommondescent.com/education/nancy-pearcey-at-beyond-expelled/comment-page-1/#comment-288152 Vladimir Krondan Fri, 09 May 2008 13:47:23 +0000 http://www.uncommondescent.com/education/nancy-pearcey-at-beyond-expelled/#comment-288152 <i>belief in evolution. </i> This is a much more significant theme than people think. A careful analysis of Stirling's <i>Darwinianism</i> and Poulton's <i>Charles Darwin</i> reveals that Darwin's main interest was extracting confessions of faith in Darwinism from important people. He even lost it at Huxley once, when Huxley said that his faith in natural selection had not grown over the years. belief in evolution.

This is a much more significant theme than people think. A careful analysis of Stirling’s Darwinianism and Poulton’s Charles Darwin reveals that Darwin’s main interest was extracting confessions of faith in Darwinism from important people. He even lost it at Huxley once, when Huxley said that his faith in natural selection had not grown over the years.

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