Chemical consequences Environmental mutagens, scientist activism, and the rise of genetic toxicology

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sand.I find it worrisome that there is currently a major move afoot to weld these two inimical worlds.In this regard, I was surprised at the difference between the views of a natural philosopher and those of scientists I know on contemporary evolutionism and evolutionists.Abigail Lustig, in her chapter on natural athe-ology, actually suggests that most modern evolutionists may be "quiet theists of one kind or other."The unlikelihood of this notion is documented in a recent poll in which the overwhelming majority of prominent evolutionists reported themselves to be godless.Lustig ends her chapter with a flung gauntlet of sorts: "The a priori belief in human exceptionalism provides one of the strongest, if unstated, criteria for judging the plausibility of evolutionary narratives.If we are no longer made in God's image, then in whose can we cast ourselves?In Darwin's?"Lustig misses the main point: the evolutionist doesn't feel the need to cast himself in any image.That's what evolution is all about.