Harvard Biologist Admits - We Know Nothing About Brain Evolution

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Lewontin is well-known for his outspokenness. In 1997 he wrote in The New York Review of Books that scientists often choose to make up "unsubstantiated just-so stories" because they "have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism... Moreover, that materialism is an absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door."

Obviously, the scientific community cannot ignore Lewinton's recent conclusions. If the ruling paradigm (naturalism or the view that nature is all there is) leads us into a blind alley, might there be something wrong with it?

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