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Robert J. Richards, Human Nature and Belief, Wed 8 July

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Darwins displacement of intelligent design
Professor Robert J Richards (University of Chicago, Illinois, USA)

Summary: Darwin constructed his theory utilizing some traditional resources, for the example final causes, purpose. Natural selection took on the properties of the recently departed deity, and thus acted intelligently and with moral concern. The end of the evolutionary process, as Darwin initially conceived it, was man with his moral sentiments. Darwin was not a neo-Darwinian.

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  • @tatsbytravis

    Yes, it has evolved, but through the work of others, not Darwin himself. That's his point, that Darwin still believed in teleology.

  • Dr. Richards is clearly unwilling to accept the fact that Darwins theory has evolved.

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