Re: If biology isn't even a science, wwhat is the ToE?


"NashtOn" <nana@xxxxx> wrote in message
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Inspired by some posts I read on s.b.evolution,which in turn are
inspired by Munson, Mayr and Ruse.
My favorite: Is Biology a Provincial Science? Philosophy of
Science 42: 428-447.

Too funny. Why Sabuto? Because many posters in here often equate biology
with physics, when the debate is raging within biology itself as to
whether it's a real science or not?

Thank the Gods for Mayr, he put forth some convincing arguments about
why biology is, in fact a science, just a different,
take-our-word-for-it, devoid of "laws" pot pourri of morsels, very akin
to fluid thermodynamics.

Put that in you pipe and smoke it.
--

I would hate to think of what science would be if you were in charge:

Look at this fish. I wonder how that dorsal fin came to be. Yeah, that's
interesting....God is cool, man. Now then, let's move on to studying land
animals.

JR


Nicolas

"The reason the theory of evolution is so controversial is that it is
the main scientific prop for scientific naturalism. Students first learn
that "evolution is a fact," and then they gradually learn more and more
about what that "fact" means. It means that all living things are the
product of mindless material forces such as chemical laws, natural
selection, and random variation. So God is totally out of the picture,
and humans (like everything else) are the accidental product of a
purposeless universe. Do you wonder why a lot of people suspect that
these claims go far beyond the available evidence?" Phillip E.Johnson,
The Church Of Darwin


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Relevant Pages

  • Interview with Mayr
    ... Ernst Mayr, one of the world's greatest evolutionary biologists and the ... systematics, and the philosophy and history of biology, as well as ... The Science of the Living World, ... In my book, I focus on two kinds of group selection, which I call ...
    (sci.bio.evolution)
  • Re: Dawkins gives incorrect answer
    ... > to be contradictions in this context. ... > not appropriate for the science of biology. ... > information massively reducing fitness. ...
    (sci.bio.evolution)
  • Re: God made pre-humans into people, Vatican newspaper says
    ... here is their course description for evolution: ... Evolutionary Biology. ... Intelligent Design fails as a pretense to science that tries to set religion ...
    (talk.origins)
  • Re: God made pre-humans into people, Vatican newspaper says
    ... At least the entire biology department at BYU. ... here is their course description for evolution: ... Intelligent Design fails as a pretense to science that tries to set religion ...
    (talk.origins)
  • Re: God made pre-humans into people, Vatican newspaper says
    ... At least the entire biology department at BYU. ... here is their course description for evolution: ... Intelligent Design fails as a pretense to science that tries to set religion ...
    (talk.origins)