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| Quote (Raevmo @ Sep. 06 2011,17:48) | | Quote (midwifetoad @ Sep. 06 2011,14:03) | I don't know if this has been posted, but the new Koonin book is available free for download At Amazon. If you non't have a Kindle, you can download a free reader.
The News at UD is rather stupidly touting it as an ID friendly book.
Details here:
http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyng....freebie |
That is putting is mildly. Quote from Koonin's book:
"Of course, ID is malicious nonsense"
Bwahaha |
Reality is settling in:
| Quote | Cannuckian Yankee 4.1 Incidentally, News, I’m now on the 2nd Chapter and it appears that it’s not exactly a “Darwin-free book.” Koonin appears to have more of a problem with the “Hardness” and dogmatism of the modern synthesis; thus the Preface: “Toward a Postmodern Synthesis of Evolutionary Biology.” He praises Darwin and those who further praise Darwin; even mentioning Dobzhansky’s famous “Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution,” not once, but twice for emphasis.
One thing I can tell you about the book – it’s very well written and easy to follow. He’s not so much interested in the fine details as he is in the “big picture.” He states at the beginning that he first intended it to be a popular Tome like that of Hawking, but later revised it to be a bit more “scientific” but not technical. |
They do get a little encouragement. Koonin apparently thinks that abiogenesis is a 1 in 10^thousand or so event.
Thanks for the publicity, Denyse!
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