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The Darwin debate and the left
By nemo | November 15, 2008
The Darwin debate and the left
On Intelligent Design and the Left
Cats, Dogs and Creationism
By JEAN BRICMONT
“The criticism of religion is the prerequisite of all criticism.”
–Karl Marx (Introduction to A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right).
Jean Bricmont reviews the MR book on ID. I have commented on the book several times here, before and after receiving a copy.
The left is stuck on nineteenth century materialism, and lives in a Darwinian limbo. I have no problem with attempted ‘material’ explanation, or rather, ‘naturalistic’ ones, but the theory of natural selection is a failure, so back to the drawing board. This book put out by Monthly Review fails to acknowledge a single critique of Darwin’s theory whatsoever and is therefore not a serious book, i.e. a piece of Darwin propaganda. John Bellamy Foster should know better as the co-author of Marx/s Ecology with its historical account of Marx’s early skepticism about natural selection.
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