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Newsletter Nr. 834
Amsterdam, February 22nd, 2020


BEYOND NEO-DARWINISM - An Alternative View of Evolution - STEVE TAYLOR

Towards the end of his life, Charles Darwin came to regret that he had placed so much emphasis on natural selection in his theory of evolution. Although he still believed that natural selection was the main way in which variety had arisen in evolution, he harboured serious doubts that it was the only way. He didn't believe that natural selection was sufficient to account for the variety of life forms on Earth, and the seeming ease with which they arise.

Darwin's doubts about the power of natural selection have never been fully resolved.

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THE PRISONER'S DILEMMA - Why Evolution Favors Free Will - DAVID LANE

Forty years later, as I was lecturing about evolution to my honors Philosophy class at Mt. San Antonio College, one of my students asked an astute question about why humans tend to believe that they have free will, especially since almost everything that happens is out of our control. Her question for some odd reason jarred my memory and made me think of my brief sojourn to Alcatraz island.

I then had one of those “aha” moments which helped me clarify my response to the query about free will and why evolution would have favored such a feature, even if it was on closer inspection an illusory one. Dovetailing with Plato's instructive, Allegory of the Cave, I made the following response to my student.

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