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Sociobiological hobgoblins.(Science)(A Loose Canon)(Book review)

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| October 01, 2007 | Guest, James | COPYRIGHT 2007 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

A LOOSE CANON, the title of his latest book, describes very well the principles on which Brian Coman builds his attack on sociobiologists ("The Origin of the Specious", September 2007). As to truth, fact and scientific method, the traditional canon is replaced for the purposes of his alternately supercilious and frivolous rhetoric by the cheerful and cavalier treatment of the subject which conservative Christians, comfortable with their traditions, so often adopt when they know that nothing the unbeliever says is going to make any impression on them. At least Coman, unlike the Catholic Bishop of Canberra who provided a review of Dawkins' The God Delusion without reading ...


    
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