Natural Selection, No Natural Mechanism
Richard Dawkins, perhaps the most famous advocate of evolution in the twenty-first century, explained that natural selection represents a “non-random survival of randomly varying hereditary instructions” in the article “The Illusion of Design,” published in the Natural History Magazine. Dawkins’ logic of natural selection with no natural mechanism defines modern neo-Darwinism.
Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, in their new book What Darwin Got Wrong, deliver a stunning exposé on Dawkins’s inane assertion that natural selection is a logical theory and non-random.
Seasoned by decades of scientific investigation, Fodor and Piattelli-Palmarini begin by demonstrating that even “Darwin’s theory of natural selection is fatally flawed.” Not only flawed, but they also view the concept as simply an “intentional fallacy.”