Is the theory of evolution an example of utility of methodological naturalism?
A. I actually recommend that science teachers use evolution as a great exemplar of the application of scientific method. It’s a well confirmed interlinked series of hypotheses. It’s not just one hypothesis, but a whole range of them, that have been tested and well confirmed, and in the same way that I was describing before, it has practical utility. One can make use of evolutionary knowledge, as scientists do in a range of fields, to social utility. One needs to know it with regard to medicine, and even with regard to engineering applications, now one can make use of Darwin’s mechanism to allow engineering designs to evolve. So there’s practical applications to evolution right now. You can get a job at Google if you know something about evolution. They’re looking for people who know about this.
