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Darwinism, Purpose and Meaning

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 June 2011

Mary Midgley
Affiliation:
Newcastle University

Extract

Researchers report that people who are asked to give their reason for converting to Creationism often say that they have done so because they see it as the only possible alternative to ‘Darwinism’ – something which they find intolerable and equate with scientific atheism.

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Papers
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy and the contributors 2011

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