Darwin's Legacy

With the continued media coverage of the fallout in the rulings about Kansas and Dover, I thought it best to provide something more than my casual rant.

E.O. Wilson is one of the world's preeminient biologists and a pulitzer-prize winning author. In Harvard Magazine, he ruminates on Darwin's contribution to science and its impacts beyond those borders. He argues that 'scientific humanism' may be the only solution out of the supposed dichotomies between 'god-centered religion' and 'atheistic communism.' To me, this smacks of oversimplification as it grounds all of humanity in our biology and leaves culture and societal forces in the ether, as it were.

Still, it is a worthwhile article that should be read by more people than it will be.