Did Darwin Write the Origin Backwards: Philosophical Essays on Darwin's Theory by Elliott Sober

Author:Elliott Sober
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781616142308
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: 2010-12-14T10:00:00+00:00

If God is a majestic law-giver and not a meddler who tinkers with piecemeal details, then the doctrine of special creation is theologically implausible (Brooke 2009, 263).2 In the competition between special creation and Darwin's own theory, a point against the former is a point in favor of the latter.

A second theological argument that Darwin makes against special creation concerns imperfect adaptation:

On the view of each organic being and each separate organ having been specially created, how utterly inexplicable it is that parts, like the teeth in the embryonic calf or like the shriveled wings under the soldered wing-covers of some beetles, should so frequently bear the plain stamp of inutility! (Darwin 1859, 480)

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