Re: Chance and Necessity (was Crichton...)

Jim Foley (jimf@vangelis.ncrmicro.ncr.com)
Tue, 17 Oct 95 08:59:02 MDT

>>>>> On Mon, 16 Oct 1995 13:29:47 -0400,
>>>>> bharper@postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu (Brian D. Harper) said:

>> I'll now give an extensive quote from the book since the context also
>> contains an interesting discussion of methodological naturalism.
>> Interestingly enough (in view of current controversies), Morowitz
>> argues that meaning and purpose are not out of bounds for science
>> and concludes (contra Gould, Dawkins, Dennett and Monod) that science
>> has revealed a universe of purpose, meaning and design. I could almost
>> hear Phil shouting "amen" as I read this :). Morowitz is really an
>> interesting character, anyone know any more about him? According to
>> the jacket cover he is professor of molecular biophysics and
>> biochemistry at Yale.

He (Harold Morowitz, that is) was also one of the witnesses for the
prosecution (the evolutionists) at the Arkansas creation/evolution trial
in 1981.

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