This is Monica Perez and we are reading the second half of the Darwin chapter in our book,

Makers of the Modern Mind by Thomas P. Neal. This edition, the second edition was made in

1958. So I'm going to actually talk to

friends of the show, Scott and William, about this very book in May. We're going to go over the

whole thing. And I especially want to talk to them about the difference between modern and postmodern.

So I feel like this book

was written in the modern era and now we're in the postmodern era. So this gets us from basically

the Renaissance or Luther to the 20th century, but a lot has changed since then. However, he goes through it step by step.

So at every stage in this book, there are things that are different now from when these stepping stones were taken.

Some things were rejected and new things were adopted.

Obviously, Darwin continues to influence the modern and postmodern mind, I would say it's more of an

influence over the mind than anything really scientific, because I personally think that this

random, the mutations, random mutation, whatever, a natural selection, is mathematically

impossible to account for the origin of species. And that's what he says it does. I think it can

account for some things, some little minor adaptations. This is a great book. Arthur Kessler's

the case of the midwife Toad.

It's got to be some kind of limited hangout.

But boy, I think it was a limited hangout in anticipation of Darwinism being totally discredited.

It was written in the 1970s, and it talks about a guy, Paul Camer, who basically proved that Lamarck was right and Darwin was wrong back in the 20s.

And I think with the dawning of epigenetics, it was clear that Darwin's method was wrong.

And I feel like they had to put something out there that kind of got ahead of that narrative.

Anyway, let us proceed.

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