Why Darwin Matters

The Decisive Battle in the Accidental War on Humanity

In “Masters and Possessors”, I described the beginning of what I call the accidental war on humanity. The first battle, initiated by Copernicus but won by Descartes, was over the existence of the cosmos. In place of a cosmological vision of the world—a vision in which the world is an organic, harmonious whole, a unity in which things have a proper place…