ABSTRACT
Reductionist theories have a habit of founding on their parents. This was true of modern atomic physics which, arising out of a moderately common-sense Newtonian view, now presents to us a world quite beyond our capacity to picture. Newtonian physics, useful though it still may be for building bridges and predicting celestial orbits, has, in the matter of truth, failed us. It is not so often observed that the same is the case for Darwinism which, as itself a materialistically leaning theory, was at least a midwife at the birth of modern reductive materialism. In short, if reductive materialism is true then the theory of evolution by natural selection is false.
