and Function: Placing Brian Goodwin,” in The Intuitive Way of “Form Knowing: A Tribute to Brian Goodwin, edited by Chris Chetland, David Lambert, and Craig Millar (Edinburgh: Floris Books, 2013). In an excellent article reviewing and contrasting the structuralist functionalist paradigms, Ruse confesses his adherence to functionalism. 68. Jerry A. Coyne, Why Evolution Is True (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009). 69. Daniel Dennett, Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995). 70. Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker, new edition (London: Penguin, 2006).] [Michael Denton: Evolution, Still a Theory in Crisis (Kindle Locations 398-402). Discovery Institute Press. Kindle Edition.] I believe, with Owen and many other nineteenth-century biologists, that life is an integral and lawful part of nature and that the basic forms of life are in some sense built into nature. I see this notion massively reinforced by the evidence of twentieth-century cosmology that the laws of nature are uniquely fine-tuned for life. Inevitably, therefore, this book is a defense of the typological world-view similar to that subscribed to by many nineteenth-century biologists: that the taxa-defining homologs represent a special set of natural forms which constitute the immutable building blocks of the biological world. [Michael Denton: Evolution, Still a Theory in Crisis (Kindle Locations 436-441). Discovery Institute Press. Kindle Edition.] 2. Galápagos Reflecting on this remarkable group of birds Darwin famously (and rightly) inferred: this gradation and diversity of structure in one small, “Seeing intimately related group of birds, one might really fancy that from an original paucity of birds in this archipelago, one species had been taken and modified for different ends.”7 [7. Charles Darwin, Voyage of the Beagle (1845 edition), Chapter 17, 402.] [Michael Denton: Evolution, Still a Theory in Crisis (Kindle Locations 495-497). Discovery Institute Press. Kindle Edition.] In other words, species were not specially created. Existing species had
“Form and Function: Placing Brian Goodwin,” in The Intuitive Way of Knowing: A Tribute to Brian Goodwin, edited by Chris Chetland, David Lambert, and Craig Millar (Edinburgh: Floris Books, 2013). In an excellent article reviewing and contrasting the structuralist functionalist paradigms, Ruse confesses his adherence to functionalism. 68. Jerry A. Coyne, Why Evolution Is True (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009). 69. Daniel Dennett, Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995). 70. Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker, new edition (London: Penguin, 2006).] [Michael Denton: Evolution, Still a Theory in Crisis (Kindle Locations 398-402). Discovery Institute Press. Kindle Edition.] I believe, with Owen and many other nineteenth-century biologists, that life is an integral and lawful part of nature and that the basic forms of life are in some sense built into nature. I see this notion massively reinforced by the evidence of twentieth-century cosmology that the laws of nature are uniquely fine-tuned for life. Inevitably, therefore, this book is a defense of the typological world-view similar to that subscribed to by many nineteenth-century biologists: that the taxa-defining homologs represent a special set of natural forms which constitute the immutable building blocks of the biological world. [Michael Denton: Evolution, Still a Theory in Crisis (Kindle Locations 436-441). Discovery Institute Press. Kindle Edition.] 2. Galápagos Reflecting on this remarkable group of birds Darwin famously (and rightly) inferred: “Seeing this gradation and diversity of structure in one small, intimately related group of birds, one might really fancy that from an original paucity of birds in this archipelago, one species had been taken and modified for different ends.”7 [7. Charles Darwin, Voyage of the Beagle (1845 edition), Chapter 17, 402.] [Michael Denton: Evolution, Still a Theory in Crisis (Kindle Locations 495-497). Discovery Institute Press. Kindle Edition.] In other words, species were not specially created. Existing species had
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