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06/06/08

by Denyse O'Leary 11:03:34 am, Categories: Commentary - OpEd, 405 words

What is Darwinism?

by Denyse O'Leary
ARN correspondent

Darwinism is not "evolution". It is a point of view widely espoused in legacy media that purports to explain everything around us by recounting what supposedly happened in evolution. Often, the claims are made without offering any worthwhile evidence, merely a plausible story. This is especially true where human evolution is concerned.

Agnostic mathematician David Berlinski put it best in the March 2003 issue of Commentary:

The term "Darwinism" conveys the suggestion of a secular ideology, a global system of belief. So it does and so it surely is. Darwin's theory has been variously used - by Darwinian biologists - to explain the development of bipedal gait, the tendency to laugh when amused, obesity, anorexia nervosa, business negotiations, a preference for tropical landscapes, the evolutionary roots of political rhetoric, maternal love, infanticide, clan formation, marriage, divorce, certain comical sounds, funeral rites, the formation of regular verb forms, altruism, homosexuality, feminism, greed, romantic love, jealousy, warfare, monogamy, polygamy, adultery, the fact that men are pigs, recursion, sexual display, abstract art, and religious beliefs of every description.

Disbelieving this material is not the same thing as doubting that evolution occurred. It is the mark of a critical thinker.

Also, just up at Overwhelming Evidence

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Toronto-based Canadian journalist Denyse O'Leary (www.designorchance.com) is the author of the multiple award-winning By Design or by Chance? (Augsburg Fortress 2004), an overview of the intelligent design controversy. She was named CBA Canada's Recommended Author of the Year in 2005 and is co-author, with Montreal neuroscientist Mario Beauregard, of The Spiritual Brain: A neuroscientist's case for the existence of the soul (Harper 2007).

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