257. Simon Conway Morris on Design in Evolution & the Possibility of Purpose in the Cosmos
The Michael Shermer Show
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Is There Something More About Darwin?
He seemed in his lifetime, and maybe this is true for anybody that's becomes famous, and it just becomes a big target. But i think he wanted to go beyond darwinism. He felt extraordinarily strongly, and here i wouldn't disagree with him, that we can't be victims of our evolutionary history. We have to have free will. That might have a bear on some of the things i'm writing at the moment. The whole thing didn't quite work. Ultimately, you know, you'd beter do all the things you'd hope to do, and you fail to convince the number of people you'd like to convince. So there we go. I it is somehow
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