Labels:bulletin board | reckoner | sky OCR: Science can and does strive to grasp nature's factuality but all science is socially embedded and all scientists record prevailing "certainties, however hard they may be aiming for pure objectivity. Darwin himself, in the closing lines of The Origin Species, expressed Victorian social preference more than nature's record ir writing "AS natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress towards perfection Life's pathway certainly includes many features predictable from laws of nature but these aspects are too broad and general to provide the "rightness" that we seek for validating evolution's particular results roses, mushrooms, people and so forth. Organisms adapt to and are constrained by physical principles. It is fo ...
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