Note the time of publication of More's diatribe: 1925. This is pretty much coeval with the Scopes trial in Tennessee, and at the nadir of Darwin's critical reputation due to the encroachments of the alternatives previously mentioned by Bowler.
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More was premature in declaring Darwin's theory of natural selection to be dead; Fisher's work which formed the beginning of the neo-Darwinian synthesis would be published just about five years later.
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"There are, perhaps, some cases where important scientific work is not linked to metaphysics; but, certainly, the theory of natural selection is not one of them; its failure is largely due to its foundation of false philosophy."
Na shta se nameche logichan odgovor....
The philosophical component of the theory of natural selection is pretty slim. The worth of an idea in science is not related to its moral or ethical implications, whether those implications are rightly or wrongly derived.
Ne vidim u chemu je problem chovek nije iskljuchio moguchnost. U krajnjem, bez obzira na pokushaje izvesnog Marka Steyna da mu prishlepa panspermiu kao Inteligentni dizajn,, mislim da njegova izjava sama govori o naginjanju na tu stranu...
The age of the earth is now established beyond any reasonable doubt as very great, yet in the United States millions of Fundamentalists still stoutly defend the naive view that it is relatively short, an opinion deduced from reading the Christian Bible too literally. They also usually deny that animals and plants have evolved and changed radically over such long periods, although this is equally well established. This gives one little confidence that what they have to say about the process of natural selection is likely to be unbiased, since their views are predetermined by a slavish adherence to religious dogmas.[