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Joh Wilkins:
>The Intelligent Design people are a sophisticated form of Paleyesque
>creationist.
SNIP
>
>To my mind this represents both an interesting social movement that is
>itself memetic - the reinvasion of a modified form of concept into an
>ecology (science) that had previously selected against it
I agree which is why I posted it
> - and also a
>major challenge to the advances since Darwin. If they have their way,
>science will be prohibited by fiat from investigating certain things
>that offend theological presuppositions.
Can memetics help resist the attempt?
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