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Dawkins is Dead: Long Live Evolution!

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

Conor Cunningham
Conor Cunningham*
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University Park Nottingham, NG7 2RD, United Kingdom
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conor.cunningham@nottingham.ac.uk
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Abstract

What the late Stephen J Gould baptized ultra-Darwinism is anti-evolutionary. In so being, it leads to the undermining of science, rationality, and, lastly, to ethical nihilism, wherein any notion of humanism is impossible, and this for one simple reason – there is now no such thing as a human. In addition, we argue that ultra-Darwinism is a progeny of crass philosophical dualism, and this leads it to despise matter and the material world, even though, paradoxically, it espouses materialism. We conclude that the theory of evolution invalidates ultra-Darwinism.

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Ultra-DarwinismRichard Dawkinsselfish genesexistence problemarrival of the fittestmaterialismnaturalism

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New Blackfriars , Volume 96 , Issue 1063 , May 2015 , pp. 269 - 278
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Copyright © 2015 The Dominican Council

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