Douglas Adams 1of2: Human nature as an evolved creature

Remember the secret to evolution-'Bang the rocks together guys!"

You can not escape the biological relevance of any of it. Call it "History of Social Sciences 101" since you are so fond of specialization.

These are intelligent people but they make the lasting confusion that 'their' science (natural sciences) are in fact 'all' of science. Physicists work through physical laws, Darwin and Wallace were both naturalists, it makes perfect science sense that culture and mind come from the social sciences.

No other life can write but if they could the only book they could write would be 'Hitchhikers Guide to my Localised Environment'. Metaphor and evolutionary wording can't fill that Galactic gap.

The quote below comes from Richard Dawkins 'A Devil's Chaplain'. Despite behaviourally modern homo sapiens sapiens 'gifts' and the ability to internalise the the very cosmos (while evolutionary theory requires that life internalises its localised environment) Dawkins and Co still try to shoehorn humankind into/through natural selection when (as you can see below) humankind bas their own selection. Darwin wrote of artificial selection, or man's methodical selection. Expression from evolution.

You can not go against nature, because when you do, go against nature, that's part of nature too. -Love & Rockets

Stand tall, Bipedal Ape. The shark may outswim you, the cheetah outrun you, the swift outfly you, the capuchin outclimb you, the elephant outpower you, the redwood outlast you. But you have the biggest gifts of all: the gift of understanding the ruthlessly cruel process that gave us all existence; the gift of revulsion against its implications; the gift of foresight - something utterly foreign to the blundering short-term ways of natural selection - and the gift of internalizing the very cosmos.

To anyone/everyone critical of thought watch 'Evolutionary Perspectives' Part 1 where the thinkers caution against the extrapolation and stretching of Darwinian/evolutionary thinking into all areas, a dogma called Universal Darwinism. And then they ignore their own advice.

Not all change is evolutionary. By understanding the last 50,00-40,000 years as the 'history' of behaviourally modern homo sapiens sapiens more and more its a process of 'Newtonising culture: expression from evolution'.

Evolutionary theory hasn't been able to account for culture, humankind and human mind in the last 150 years. This lasting epistemological fact stands as evidence that culture will be worked out not by natural sciences but by the social sciences.

Adams, Dawkins, Dennett, Pinker and co would have you believe that behind their vast Darwinian analogies, metaphor and literary/lecturing style they have something more than just an interesting very story. That is a fiction 150 years old...and counting.

A wee less drinking and a spot more editing. So long and thanks for all the opinions.