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Letters
Letters
Mary Midgley – ID she wrong? • Great Chain of Being Wrong • Ethics and Reasons • How To Do Philosophy
Mary Midgley – ID she wrong?
DEAR EDITOR: In her article in Issue 64, ‘A Plague on Both Their Houses’, Mary Midgley, that most level-headed of philosophers, unusually here seems to be committing the same error as the neoDarwinians. In their haste to discredit Intelligent Design (ID), the evolutionists claim ID is merely a dishonest mask worn by creationists. However, ID has nothing to do with fundamentalism, as can be seen from the simple fact that it accepts current scientific beliefs as to the age of the Universe and of the Earth (see Dembski, whom Midgley cites). Nor does ID deny that evolution occurs. It is based on a careful look at the probabilities.
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