In his new book, Mind and Cosmos, Thomas Nagel is not claiming that life is six thousand years old,
In his new book, Mind and Cosmos, Thomas Nagel is not claiming that life is six thousand years old, that it did not evolve, or that natural selection played no part in this evolution. He believes that life has a long evolutionary history and that natural selection had a part in it. And while he does believe that intelligent design creationists have asked some incisive questions, Nagel rejects their answers. Indeed he is an atheist. Instead Nagel’s view is that neo-Darwinism, and in fact the whole materialist view elaborated by science since the seventeenth century, is radically incomplete. The materialist laws of nature must, he says, be supplemented by something else if we are to fold ourselves and our minds fully into our science. H. Allen Orr: Awaiting a New Darwin -- source link
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