... , he asserts, is the product of a mindless, purposeless process. He vehemently rejects all forms of intelligent design, including Darwin's belief that the laws of evolution rather than individual species were the product of design. In a protracted critique of Gould he insists that mutations and natural selection are the only factors responsible for the direction of evolutionary change. Through random mutations a ... which religious leaders took dogmatic stands outside their field of competence, from Galileo to the Arkansas creationism trial. But he is equally critical of scientists who tr...

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