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Post-Darwinian evolution?

Discover why Carl Safina argues that Darwinism must die to allow for evolution to thrive, challenging the widespread Darwin cult.

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Carl Safina has a provocative essay in The New York Times, Darwinism Must Die So That Evolution May Live. I'm sure others will jump all over this, so I'm not going to go exegetic on the essay. Though I disagree with the overly broad assertions, it is elegantly written and points to a reality: there is a cult of Charles Darwin. Where after all is the cult of Isaac Newton? Albert Einstein week? The remembrance of Gregor Mendel? Ruminations on the legacy of Antoine Lavoisier? But that cult is a reaction to the fact that there exists an organized lobby aimed at tearing down the science which Darwin established. But I am not clear as to Safina's intended audience. I am curious to find out which evolutionary biologists speak of "Darwinism." The reality is that most of the time evolutionary biologists use the term Darwinism it is when they are ...

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