The Darwinian Tradition

I’ve always been interested in the application of Darwinian and ersatz-Darwinian thinking to areas outside biology proper, and back when I was merely a future grad-school dropout, I spent a goodly amount of time reading about Darwinian assumptions in cognitive psychology, politics, ethics, and the like. So while I’m not a scientist, I know a little bit about the theory of natural selection.

That’s why, during the Left’s pile-on over Scott Walker’s unartful dodging of a recent question on evolution, I couldn’t help screwing with the blogger Charles F. Johnson, who’d tweeted, “Yeah, who cares about evolution? It’s just the basis for all of modern biology & medicine. A stunningly ignorant article,” in response to Brother Kevin Williamson’s argument that “nobody really cares what Scott Walker thinks about Darwin.”