![]() Wilber concurrs approvingly in his reply to Astin "you have hit the nail on the head", even as to the existence of "holes" in evolutionary theory: Why the embattled Creationists haven't seized on this one is beyond me, since it leaves a huge hole in evolutionary theory.Īgain, we know by now the rhetoric of "huge holes" in evolutionary theory that cry out for some complementary "theory" of an Eros in the Kosmos, that is supposedly the true explanation for the complexity of life's forms. (In fact, your metaphor "oops" is a perfect substitute term for randomness.) When they embrace the concept of "random" mutations, then, many geneticists think they are somehow explaining something, but in fact they are implicitly admitting that "we don't have a clue as to why this particular mutation happened at this particular time." It simply describes a situation where the observer/investigator is unable to find any causal antecedent for the event in question. ![]() Evolutionary biologists supposedly appeal to random changes as explanationary principle, which according to Astin only hides their ignorance of what's really going on: They challenge your example of the evolution of the bird wing, basically arguing that the 100 mutations DON'T have to occur all at once, claiming that each one occurs independently because EACH one is functional to survival! How probable is THIS? (Maybe the half wing helps them run faster?) Or do I somehow have their argument wrong?Īstin then elaborates on the issue of the nature of randomness, as used in statistics, which he has taught (as a social scientist, presumably), and evolution. Wilber is ignoring his critics at his own cost. Higher Education Research Institute, who had checked out one of David Lane's essays on Integral World (" Wilber and the Misunderstanding of Evolution").Īn immediate side note: there is the obligatory confession "I never read this stuff and "I am sure you ignore it too", but "I was curious so I checked it out", and "what I found was utterly unconvincing" we know these rituals by now. In this posting Wilber relates about an email exchange he had with Alexander Astin, Founding Director of the A few days ago, on December 4th, 2007, a posting appeared on Wilber's own blog, titled " Some Criticisms of My Understanding of Evolution". In my last posting, The Wilberian Evolution Report, I tried to archive the various statements on biological evolution Wilber had made over the years, and the comments these had generated. ![]() Albania, American Samoa, Andorra, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan Republic, Bahamas, Bahrain, Belarus, Belgium, Bermuda, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, French Guiana, Georgia, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Greenland, Guam, Guernsey, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jersey, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macau, Macedonia, Malaysia, Malta, Mauritius, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Oman, Panama, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Republic of Croatia, Romania, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Saint Lucia, San Marino, Serbia, Seychelles, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Vatican City State, Vietnam, Virgin Islands (U.S.Could it be because Wilber needs evolutionary biology to fail on its own, that he selectively reads all this literature?
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