How to Close the Loop in the Evolutionary Theory

In a way, i'm realizing more and more that what you are trying to say is the limit of evolutionary theory. It actually creates a disjunct in the person listening because iti thers something to us which is appalling or repulsive. And so then you bridge into saying, well, here is a way in which i can talk about reality, which will afford us some connection to reality but is not centred on cold objective facts. That's how science progresses. We take our theories to their limits. They tell us where they stop. And then we take a cratof leap beyond. But whatever the new leap is, we don't throw away what we've already done

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