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19Teleology and Biology: Some Thoughts on Ayala's Analysis of TeleologyHistory and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 21 (2). 1999.
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19Biology and the History of the Future, Edited by C. H. Waddington, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1972, pp. vii, 72, 50 p (review)Dialogue 13 (2): 402-403. 1974.
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19Reduction in GeneticsPSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1974. 1974.
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18Complexity and the Arrow of Time (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2013.There is a widespread assumption that the universe in general, and life in particular, is 'getting more complex with time'. This book brings together a wide range of experts in science, philosophy and theology and unveils their joint effort in exploring this idea. They confront essential problems behind the theory of complexity and the role of life within it: what is complexity? When does it increase, and why? Is the universe evolving towards states of ever greater complexity and diversity? If s…Read more
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18The Structure of Biological Theories (review)International Studies in Philosophy 25 (1): 109-110. 1993.
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18arly in December of 1981, the federal courtroom in Little Rock, Arkansas, was packed. It was the first week of a trial brought on by the American Civil Liberties Union to challenge the constitutionality of a state law passed earlier that year. The law mandated "balanced treatment," in the publicly supported schools, between evolutionary ideas and so-called Creation Science, better known as the early chapters of Genesis taken absolutely literally (Ruse 1988). By the end of the third day, the case…Read more
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18Confessions of an Agnostic: Apologia Pro Vita SuaSophia 60 (3): 575-591. 2021.Francis Collins, the director of the NEH and well-known Christian, has said that agnosticism is a bit of a cop-out. Either be a Christian or be an atheism, but have the guts to make up your mind. I shall argue in a positive way for agnosticism, showing that it can be as vibrant a position as belief or non-belief. It gives you a renewed appreciation of life and the world in which we live.
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18Book Review:The Young Darwin and His Cultural Circle Edward Manier (review)Philosophy of Science 46 (1): 165-. 1979.
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17Pseudoscience: Objective or Subjective?Disputatio 9 (13). 2020.What is pseudo-science and when do charges of pseudo-scientific thinking generally arise? These questions are answered by looking at six examples where the charge of pseudo-science has arisen: anti-vaccination and the claims that it causes illnesses, Creationism – the claim that the Bible is literally true –, chiropractic and claims about curing cancer and the like, pre-Darwinian evolution, that is developmental hypotheses before the Origin of Species, Immanuel Velikovsky and his book, Worlds in…Read more
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17Evolution and Religion: A DialogueRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2008.Michael Ruse, a leading expert on Charles Darwin, presents a fictional dialogue among characters with sharply contrasting positions regarding the tensions between science and religious belief.
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17Sociobiology, Sex, and Science (review)International Studies in Philosophy 29 (4): 121-122. 1997.
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17Mike Dixon;, Gregory Radick. Darwin in Ilkley. 126 pp., illus., index. Stroud, Gloucestershire: History Press, 2009. £12.99 (review)Isis 102 (1): 179-179. 2011.
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16The theory of punctuated equilibriaIn Peter K. Machamer, Marcello Pera & Aristeidēs Baltas (eds.), Scientific Controversies: Philosophical and Historical Perspectives, Oxford University Press. pp. 230. 2000.
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15Evolutionary Biology and the Question of TrustIn Noretta Koertge (ed.), Scientific Values and Civic Virtues, Oup Usa. pp. 99. 2005.
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15Studies in the Philosophy of Biology. Reduction and Related Problems by Franciso José Ayala; Theodosius Dobzhansky (review)Isis 67 479-481. 1976.
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15Review of Richard D. Alexander: The Biology of Moral Systems (review)Ethics 99 (1): 182-183. 1988.
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