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Evolution for Everyone
How Darwin’s Theory Can Change the Way We
Think About Our Lives
David Sloan Wilson
Distinguished Professor
Departments of Biology and Anthropology
Director of EvoS (http://bingweb.binghamton.edu/~evos/)
Binghamton University
Binghamton, New York 13902-6000
Tel: 607-777-4393 Fax: 607-777-6521
[email protected]
Representation:
Michelle Tessler
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To be published by Bantam Press in Spring 2007..
Table of Contents
1. The Future Can Differ From The Past 5
2. Clearing The Deck 14
3. A Third Way Of Thinking 19
4. Prove It! 23
5. Be Careful What You Wish For 29
6. Monkey Madness 36
7. How The Dog Got Its Curly Tail 41
8. Dancing With Ghosts 49
9. What Is The Function Of A Can Opener? How Do You Know? 55
10. Your Apprentice License 60
11. Welcome Home, Prodigal Son 63
12. Teaching The Experts 69
13. Murder City 76
14. How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Genetic Determinism 85
15. They’ve Got Personality! 92
16. The Beauty Of Abraham Lincoln 105
17. Love Thy Neighbor Microbe 114
18. Groups All The Way Down 121
19. Divided We Fall 126
20. Winged Minds 130
21. The Egalitarian Ape 138
22. Across The Cooperation Divide 149
23. The First Laugh 156
24. The Vital Arts 163
25. Dr. Doolittle Was Right 174
26. How Many Inventors Does It Take To Make A Light Bulb? 181
27. I Don’t Know How It Works! 193
28. Darwin’s Cathedral 209
29. Is There Anyone Out There? Is There Anyone Up There? 228
30. Ayn Rand: Religious Zealot 240
31. The Social Intelligence of Nations, or, Evil Aliens Need Not Apply 254
32. Mr. Beeper 266
33. The Ecology Of Good And Evil 274
34. Mosquitoes Under The Bed 281
35. The Return Of The Amateur Scientist 288
36. Bon Voyage 308
Acknowledgements 313
Endnotes 314
Bibliography 327
Websites 340
For H.
Chapter 1
The Future Can Differ From The Past
This is a book of tall claims about evolution: that it can become uncontroversial;
that the basic principles are easy to learn; that everyone should want to learn them, once
their implications are understood; that evolution and religion, those old enemies who
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together.
Can these claims possibly be true? Isn’t evolution the most controversial theory
the world has ever seen? Since it’s a scientific subject, isn’t it hard to learn? If the
implications are benign, then why all the fear and trembling? And how on earth can the
old enemies of evolution and religion do anyth ...
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1. December 2004
Science and Religion
Interview with Kenneth R. Miller
Science and religion are not mutually exclusive.
Religious questions stand outside the scope of science.
ActionBioscience.org: Do science and religion rule each other out?
Miller: No, I certainly don’t think they do. I think the whole tradition of Western
science is that science and religion are not mutually exclusive. There are many
people in the scientific community, in the United States and around the world, who
hold strong religious points of view and do not see their points of view conflicting
with working in science or even with the philosophy of science.
ActionBioscience.org: Can science prove or disprove the existence of a
higher being?
Miller: No, it can’t. The existence of a supreme being simply is not a scientific
question. A supreme being stands outside of nature. Science is a naturalistic process
and can only answer questions about what is inside nature. Beyond that it’s a matter
of personal belief.
Evolution may be one means to God’s goals.
ActionBioscience.org: How is it possible to believe in the evolution of a
complex world and God?
Miller: That’s an interesting question. God, for those of us who believe in Him, is the
Creator and the Master of the universe. As C. S. Lewis once said, “[God] likes
matter. He invented it.” [Mere Christianity, Harper, 2001] It seems to me that an all-
powerful Creator, who is behind both the material of the universe and the laws that
govern the interactions of that material, would be able to accomplish any goal He
wanted to in terms of the process, the architecture, or the ultimate fruition of the
universe.
Now, what I don’t find useful to speculate about are the exact physical, chemical, or
biological processes that could be attributed to God, or identified as God working His
2. magic in the world. I think both Western religious tradition and scripture itself tell us
that God is very subtle and He can use many ways to accomplish His ends.
We must use our responsibility to nature wisely.
We are Earth’s stewards.
ActionBioscience.org: If a supreme being put evolution into motion, do
humans then have a moral responsibility for the care of the planet?
Miller: Oh, that’s a very good question. I think the answer to that is certainly “Yes.”
Let’s talk about it biologically first. We are the brightest things on the block. We have
become the single, most common, large mammal on Earth. We might take that for
granted today, but 500 years ago that was not true. We were not the single, most
common, large mammal. That means, in terms of ecological impact, that our species
is unique. We have the possibility to do more good, to do more damage, or to cause
more extinctions than any other organism on this planet. So we have to use our
responsibility wisely.
From a religious point of view, there is an entire movement within Christian
theology, known as the Christian Ecology Movement. It takes very seriously the
Biblical admonition that we should be stewards of the Earth. We are Earth’s
guardians. The Bible is filled with parables about the wise steward and the foolish
steward. The care of Earth, in particular, is an area in which both the religious and
scientific sentiments coincide.
Knowledge is a compelling reason to believe in God.
Religions must embrace the pursuit of scientific knowledge.
3. ActionBioscience.org: In your book, Finding Darwin’s God, you write, “in
nature, elusive and unexplored, we will find the Creator at work.” How is
your view different from that of creationists or proponents of intelligent
design, who argue against evolution?
Miller: I think the biggest difference, and the most direct way to pinpoint that
difference, is to say that creationists inevitably look for God in what science has not
yet explained or in what they claim science cannot explain. Most scientists who are
religious look for God in what science does understand and has explained. So the
way in which my view is different from the creationists or intelligent design
proponents is that I find knowledge a compelling reason to believe in God. They find
ignorance a compelling reason to believe in God.
ActionBioscience.org: You also write in the same book, “There is a deeper
problem caused by the opponents of evolution, a problem for religion.”
Please explain.
Miller: When religion places itself in conflict with science, that is, when religion says
that we have to reject scientific explanations for religious reasons, it basically means
that every time science advances in understanding, religion contracts. If you define
religion as being the things that science cannot explain, every time the realm of
science expands--and every year we understand a little more about life, the world
around us, and the cosmos--those areas become smaller. I think ultimately the
rejection of mainstream science, and the rejection of evolution by the creationist
movement, is a mistake for religion because it essentially argues that religion is
disapproved by the mechanisms and tools of science. That’s a profound theological
mistake.
Evolution is fundamental to understanding life. ActionBioscience.org: Why
does evolution remain a dangerous idea for some of the American public?
Miller: I think evolution remains a dangerous idea for two reasons:
1. Many people in the religious community continue to believe that evolution
cannot be reconciled with religion. That is just not true. Most people
understand that, but not everyone.
2. Evolution concerns something very fundamental. Evolution is controversial for
the same reason that you can start a fight by going into a bar and saying
something about somebody’s mother. It concerns where we’re from, what our
status is as human beings, and how we relate to the rest of life on the Earth.
That will always make it a controversial idea, not just in the U.S. but also in
many countries around the world.
Evolution is both a fact and good science. ActionBioscience.org: How should
science respond to this public fear of evolution?
Miller: Science can respond in three ways:
1. The first is by answering the objections that are frequently raised against
evolution. The charge that evolution is not good science--that there are no
5. and college textbooks with Joseph S. Levine, called Biology, the most recent
of which is known as the “Dragonfly” book (Pearson Prentice Hall, 2002);
he also wrote Finding Darwin’s God: A Scientist’s Search for Common
Ground between God and Evolution
(HarperCollins, 1999).
http://bms.brown.edu/faculty/m/kmiller/