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counter indoctrinationism

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Fri, 02/09/2007 - 10:00am.

If ANYONE is writing down/taking ANYTHING I (or Mayr, or anyone else) say as "gospel" they are missing the point (both of my stories and of evolution).

"I don't "believe" in stories, wherever they come from. I listen to them, learn from them, and make use of them when I find them useful ... And I don't tell stories in order to get other people to believe in them. I tell the stories I tell because I find those stories useful and so offer them to others for whatever use they might be to them."

Here's to "courage", an essential ingredient of learning to be skeptical of stories, whatever their source, and so of being able to continually create and revise stories of one's own.

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