Original scientific paper
"The Spectrum of Darwinisms". Conceptual and Scientifically-Theoretical Explanations
Winfried Lőffler
orcid.org/0000-0001-8892-204X
; Institute of Christian Philosophy, Catholic Faculty of Theology, Leopold Franzens University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
Abstract
The article deals with conceptual and scientifically-theoretical explanations of Darwinism. The first two chapters give an introduction to Darwin’s achievements and point to differences in relation with today’s so called “synthetic” theory of evolution. The fourth chapter talks about the controversial variants of the synthetic theory of evolution, which are important for the ongoing debate between religion and science. The fifth chapter briefly addresses the scientifically-theoretical question about the status of evolutionary biology. The sixth chapter deals with the popular Darwinist slogans that are particularly present in media representations. The seventh chapter deliberates on socio-biology, especially on the border area of biology, which is very susceptible to ideologies. And the unambiguous examples of ideology are social Darwinisms, which are being examined in the eighth chapter. In the end, the ninth chapter summarizes all of the above deliberations into theses. The central thought behind the deliberations is that the evolutionary biology of Darwin’s characteristics is in a scientifically-theoretical point of view a perfectly respectable venture, although it – like every other far-fetched science – hides many holes and uncertainties.
Keywords
Darwin; Darwinism; evolution; socio-biology; synthetic theory of evolution; evolutionary biology
Hrčak ID:
79952
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Publication date:
26.4.2012.
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