of play.
Strangely, evolutionary ideas were more popular with the lay
public than with the scientific establishment. Those who were best informed
about biology, and especially about classification and morphology, upheld
The Science of Sociobiology Critiques the Truth-Claims of Religion
E.O.Wilson has written:
...we have come to the crucial stage
in the history of biology when religion itself is subject to the explanations
of the natural
ultimate nature of reality.
Evolutionary thinking has given rise to a renaissance of explicit conflict
between scientific and religious claims (see also the conflict or warfare
hypothesis ).
The idea that Darwinism