Evolution. A heterodox view

Darwinism is not the only credible theory for evolution

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Evolution. A heterodox view
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Mar 2022
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What you will learn

You will learn the basics of evolutionary theory, including heterodox theories besides the standard Darwinism..

You will learn a scientifically sound critique of the Darwinian idea.

You will learn a detailed history of evolutionary thought.

You will be able to put modern debates over evolution and Darwinism in a broad philosophical and societal context

Why take this course?

This course will take you through a heterodox theory of evolution. While Darwinism dominates our thinking about evolution today, it has never been, nor is today, the final 'scientific' word. The principal competitor for Darwinism on the public stage at the moment is Intelligent Design Theory. Both suffer from deep incoherencies.

In this course, you will learn a third, and different, way to think about evolution, one that forges a path between mindless Darwinism on the one hand, and Intelligent Design theory on the other.

It is derived from my perspective as a physiologist (concerned with how life works). Being a physiologist, I look at the phenomenon of life in a unique way. While physiology is a science of mechanism, it is also a profound statement of the nature of life per se. Physiologists are perhaps the scientific world’s last vitalists, that is to say, scientists who have an appreciation that the phenomenon of life is unlike any other in the universe.

An understanding of what makes life unique is essential for any theory of life (which includes evolution) to be coherent. Among life’s unique attributes is frank purposefulness and intentionality. Modern evolutionary theory denies these altogether, while Intelligent Design theory misattributes them. This course will show how evolution, like the rest of life, is a profoundly purposeful and intentional process.

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Geoffrey
January 31, 2024
Excellent coverage of so many fascinating aspects of Evolution. However, puzzled by the final sections of the course where the whole concept of Species was being questioned, as if this was a way of reducing the scientific theories of Darwinian Evolution. For a while, I was even beginning to wonder if references to Creationism would be introduced!

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