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Most evolutionists and philosophers of biology believe that traditional notions of "human nature" cannot be made consistent with or grounded in evolutionary accounts of human populations. The locus classicus of these points is Ernst Mayrs work, especially Ernst Mayr, Animal Species and Evolution (Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1963), and Ernst Mayr, Typological versus Population Thinking, in Elliot Sober (ed.), Conceptual Issues in Evolutionary Biology (3rd edition) (MIT Press, 2006), pp. 325-328.
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We shall use "creationists" in what follows as a term of art to mean both those committed to the literal truth of the Book of Genesis as well as the proponents of "Intelligent Design." Intelligent Design is simply creationism for those who have consulted a lawyer and a public relations firm; it has nothing to do with science, since the criticisms of evolutionary biology are without merit and the positing of "intelligent design" as an explanatory hypothesis is on a par, epistemically, with the positing of turtles on whose back the universe rests. The Intelligent Design Creationists have stated no empirically testable hypothesis, and posit mechanisms that satisfy none of the standard desiderata of scientific theory construction, like ontological parsimony or methodological conservatism.
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