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[Freethinker]

Perhaps in the near future, we will have a REAL PHD. I won't expose his name should he decide to log in under a nic. He received his Doctorate in Genetics at the University of Ferrara in Italy and his PhD in Botany from the University of Connecticut. a PhD in Philosophy at the University of Tennessee. He has published 72 technical papers and two books on evolutionary biology. He has recently completed an edited book entitled The Evolution of Complex Phenotypes. has been awarded several times the Oak Ridge National Labs award for excellence in research and has won the prestigious Dobzhansky Prize from the Society for the Study of Evolution, of which he is now (a prominent member...).

I've known him for a while. When I saw the original post here, esp since marcobiagini seems to be from Italy, like my friend, I couldn;t help but let him know about it. Here is is first reply:

gosh, these people never cease to amaze me with the degree of nonsense they come up with!

I may drop into the discussion list, but I'm about to move house and lab to xxxxxxxxxx, so my mind is currently elsewhere... (I wonder, does that prove dualism? :-)

BTW, an excellent, serious, critique of the computational theory of mind is: Fodor, J. (2000). The Mind Doesn't Work That Way. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press.

If he joins us here I can assure you the discussion will change dramatically. As indicated above, he will absolutely destroy any claims against Evolution from Creationists. It's one of his favorite activities! :-)