Submitted by pi314, Jan 30, 2008 10:34

Well we shouldn't be surprised that the Discovery Institute, the faux-science evolution-denying research institute (which, actually, does no research) has jumped on this review as supporting their view. In an article posted on their website yesterday, the DI's Bruce Chapman sums up this review -- as he sees it -- as "Marx is Dead, Freud is Dead, and by the way, so is Darwin". Well not quite, Brucey boy. Mssr. Dalrymple refers to the explanatory power of Darwinism vis a vis the general nature of humanity. Not its origins, not its progress up from the muck, but simply its "humanity". How did we become what we are in the broad sense -- creatures with souls and dreams and poetry in our hearts. These are the sorts of questions that religion is expected to answer. I'm not sure how the reviewer views the basic tenets of evolutionary theory, and he may very well believe they are bunk. But he certainly doesn't say so in THIS review. So we shouldn't be surprised that folks at the DI have mis-read, misinterpreted and/or misrepresented information. Such behavior is SOP for the DI.

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