Philosophical implications of Darwin's theory of evolution
Professor Elliott Sober (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) Summary: What are the philosophical implications of Darwin's theory of evolution?
Do they show that there is no God, that materialism is true, and that ethics is a matter of opinion, not fact? Here I think we need to remember what the biochemist Jacques Monod said in another context: 'any confusion between the ideas suggested by science and science itself must be carefully avoided'. In this connection, I'll discuss Darwin's theory and its relation to what is now called methodological naturalism.