INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 655 Amsterdam, May 12th, 2017 KEN WILBER AND “MORONIC” EVOLUTION - The Religion of Tomorrow and the misunderstanding of Emergence - DAVID LANE It has been twenty years [1997] since I first wrote about Ken Wilber's misunderstanding and misrepresentation of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. One would hope that in those intervening two decades Wilber would have at least learned not to keep peddling his mistaken caricature of biological evolution and how it actually works. But that hasn't happened since Wilber in his most recent book, The Religion of Tomorrow, still persists in presenting a false picture of the current theory and in so doing propping up a straw man of his imagining so as to champion his own, not so subtle version of intelligent design. One can only wonder why he is so recalcitrant to admitting his errors. Yet, after reading his newest text, a weighty tome of over 800 pages, it became exceedingly obvious to me that Ken Wilber basically cannot accept how complexity can emerge from simpler processes without invoking a teleological drive behind its unfolding. Simply put, Wilber thinks it is “moronic” (his adjective) that blind processes could have led “From Bacteria to Bach” to cite Daniel Dennett's latest offering which serves as a nice rejoinder to all things Wilberish. Read more: http://integralworld.net/lane124.html