Comments for The Psychopathic Chicken: Evolutionist David Sloan Wilson Kicks Off the Darwin Project at SAU at http://www.rcreader.com , comment 1 to 5 out of 5 comments http://www.rcreader.com Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:55:54 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.rcreader.com/news/the-psychopathic-chicken-evolutionist-david/#comment-1001 Let me make one final comment. I realize that my comments are not the final word on the science and religion issue. I just wanted to let readers know that there are many more perspectives out there than just that of Professor Wilson. - P Sun, 31 Aug 2008 14:27:54 +0100 http://www.rcreader.com/news/the-psychopathic-chicken-evolutionist-david/#comment-1000 "as well" I mean. last mistake - P Sun, 31 Aug 2008 14:00:22 +0100 http://www.rcreader.com/news/the-psychopathic-chicken-evolutionist-david/#comment-999 and a few other words ass well. sorry. - P Sun, 31 Aug 2008 13:59:47 +0100 http://www.rcreader.com/news/the-psychopathic-chicken-evolutionist-david/#comment-998 Excuse me, I mispelled "Professor" in the middle of my last entry. - P Sun, 31 Aug 2008 13:56:46 +0100 http://www.rcreader.com/news/the-psychopathic-chicken-evolutionist-david/#comment-997 This article was certainly interesting, but it seemed very one-sided. It bascially read like an advertisement for the professor's book. Since this evolution event is taking place at St. Ambrose- a Catholic school- it would have been nice to here what some of the school's theologians thought about the whole science and religion issue that was brought up. Biologists are excellent at biology, but generally very poor when they try to be theologians. Professor Wilson is an atheist. Of course he is going to dismiss the truth claims of religion. But natural science is metaphysically neutral. Atheism and materialism are just as "unscientific" and metaphysical as any supernatural religious views. I am scientist(physicist) myself, but I understand that neither evolution, quantum mechanics, the big bang, or any scientific theory necessarily compels me to be an atheist or theist. I accept the evidence that the human body evolved from lower animals. The real question is whether the human soul/spirit is more than just an epiphenomenon of evolution. That is question that scientists. philosophers and theologians have argued about for centuries and will continue to argue about for many more. Even A. R. Wallace-Darwin's collaborator in the initial evolution paper-thought that human behavior was more than just the sum of it's evolutionary parts. What makes man so exceptional? Many modern thinkers, particularly the linguist Noam Chomsky, find some unique about human language. Of course, I'm sure Prfoessor Wilson disagrees with that view and can name a dozen experiments where some chimp was taught sign language, but there is still much debate about whether what those animals could do was actually equivalent to human language. Besides that, I can name at least one aspect of human behavior that is unique and exceptional. To paraphrase Walker Percy(a psychiatrist turned novelist who wrote extensively on these issues), man is unique in the simple fact the we are the only known species that is at all concerned about whether we are unique or not. - P Sun, 31 Aug 2008 13:51:29 +0100