205. Richard Dawkins on evangelizing for evolution, science, skepticism, philosophy, reason, and rationality, based on his book Books Do Furnish a Life: Reading and Writing Science
The Michael Shermer Show
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Darwin's Misunderstanding of Evolution
People and natural selection, people think of it as like a force instead of a description of what's going on in nature. Some of this i attribute to darwin's own analogy of pigeon breeders because it implies that there somebody topped down, making these decisions. Like natural selection is, its selecting for something. Butt there's no selectioni in a top down way. So i think there's, you've got to be pretty stupid to have that problem, really.
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