tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3235204053780592849.post711332155706735181..comments2010-12-04T16:31:13.654-08:00Comments on A Critical Approach to Darwinism: Reductionism; the failing of Darwins theoryDr. Stephen Ogdenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16765689515656935339noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3235204053780592849.post-84686012968105375232010-10-14T17:08:27.064-07:002010-10-14T17:08:27.064-07:00I think that how you trace the history of Evolutio...I think that how you trace the history of Evolutionary theory is very enlightening. And the fact that Darwin was able to surmise this history in one paragraph as you say, does not testify to his legacy as a great scientist or revolutionary theorist, but simply his great ability as a writer. In reading Shaw’s “Back to Methuselah” he backs this up in saying the very secret of Darwin’s ‘popularity’ was that “he never puzzled anybody. If very few of us have read the origin of Species from end to end, it is not because it overtaxes our mind, but because we take in the whole case and are prepared to accept it long before we have come to the end of the innumerable instances and illustrations of which the book mainly consists” (35). We are able to believe Darwinism because of the convincing attributes of his writing, not necessarily the content of his work.KAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13264339477626043506noreply@blogger.com