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The Concept of Evolution: A Comment on Papers By Mr Manser and Professor Flew

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

Kevin Connolly
Kevin Connolly
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Sheffield University
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Flew claims that Manser has made several errors in his argument and in so doing presented a view of Darwinian evolutionary theory which is incorrect. This is a view with which I concur though the case against Manser's argument does not appear to have been put as clearly as it might have been. As Flew points out, Manser has made two kinds of objection to Darwinian, and presumably Neo-Darwinian, theory: that the terms employed in the theory are not clearly and independently defined, and that the theory makes no predictions and as such is un-falsifiable.

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Philosophy , Volume 41 , Issue 158 , October 1966 , pp. 356 - 357
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1966

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