A selective Darwinian.

First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public LifeNbr. 1998, January 1998

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David Stove, 'Darwinian Fairytales'

David Stove, who has taught at the University of Sydney, Australia, most of his life, admires Charles Darwin, yet debunks him. He is different from most anti-Darwinians and not a creationist. He admires Darwin a great deal as a thinker and thinks the human species evolved from some other species and that natural selection is responsible for new species coming from older ones. He maintains, however, that Darwin made mistakes, especially relative to humans. No knowledgeable thinking person will think that any variation in the least degree injurious to a species would be destroyed. Darwinians blame the fact instead of their theory when there is conflict.

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A selective Darwinian.

Here's an item that almost fell through the cracks, but is very much worth rescuing. Roger Kimball of the New Criterion discovers David Stove, and hopes that many others will as well. Stove, who has taugh...

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