Friday, December 29, 2017

A creationist asshole wrote a book about Charles Darwin which was bullshit. Jerry Coyne wrote about it at the Washington Post.

The bullshit book: CHARLES DARWIN: VICTORIAN MYTHMAKER By A.N. Wilson

https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2017/12/29/my-wapo-review-of-a-n-wilsons-biography-of-darwin/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/an-attack-on-evolution-disguised-as-a-darwin-biography/2017/12/28/ce3df238-b502-11e7-9e58-e6288544af98_story.html

Wilson’s use of the familiar and discredited tropes of creationism — humans are too special to be products of evolution, complex organs such as eyes can’t evolve, we see microevolution but not macroevolution, evolution can’t create new information in DNA, evolution is itself a religion, Hitler’s genocide traces back to Darwinism and so on — forces us to conclude that, even if he isn’t a creationist, he surely walks and quacks like one.

In the end, Wilson’s book is harmful, because its ignorance and denial of scientific evidence, coming from an established author, will promote the mistaken view that evolutionary biology is seriously flawed. And by flouting the research on Darwin carried out by serious historians of science, it betrays those historians and history itself.

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