(2023-06-28, 09:22 PM)Silence Wrote: I'm far from a scholar on this, but isn't this more of a neo-Darwinism position? I always felt like Darwin's actual work didn't presuppose a no God, no "clockmaker" metaphysic. (i.e., "God" created the universe and created man but did it through the seemingly random phenomenon of NS/RM)
Provine's well-known remarks about the implications of naturalistic evolution are regarding what has been the consensus of the evolutionary biology community, which indeed has been called "neo-Darwinism". Neo-Darwinism supposedly perfected the theory by incorporating population genetics statistics, done in the 1930s. Now it is crumbling though still supported by the academic community and the media for various societal and psychological reasons. Neo-Darwinism with a lot of complicated elaborations is currently still being promulgated and taught as the truth. That is what I was talking about.