Darwinian fairytales
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Darwinian fairytales
（Avebury series in philosophy）
Avebury , Ashgate Pub., c1995
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Description
Arguing that the evolutionist's view of human life, in particular, is as much an offence to logic as it is to common decency, this study attacks Darwin's theory since it arguably postulated a relentless struggle for life in all species.
Table of Contents
- Darwinism's dilemma
- where Darwin first went wrong about man
- "But what about war, pestilence, and all that?"
- population, privilege and Malthus's retreat
- a horse in the bathroom, or the struggle for life
- tax and the selfish girl, or does "Altruism" need inverted commas?
- genetic Calvinism, or demons and Dawkins
- "He ain't heavy, he's my brother", or Altruism and shared genes
- a new religion
- Paley's revenge or purpose regained
- errors of heredity, of the irrelevance of Darwinism to human life.
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