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257. Simon Conway Morris on Design in Evolution & the Possibility of Purpose in the Cosmos

The Michael Shermer Show

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I Don't Get the Sense, Simon, That You're Driving Your Science?

"I don't get the sense that you're, whatever your religious boliefs are, that they're driving your science," says lesa. "It's an intellectual exercise", he adds of his christian faith. In a book about animal minds, right at the beginning, i give a long list of the specious names of homosapients,. And cause they are all sorts, you know, homo economicus, there's homo sovieticus, but also there’s homo naran. But wi, let all that pass."

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