Over a career that spanned six decades, Ruse battled not only creationists but also his fellow Darwinians – notably the “new atheists” who, like him, were in awe of Darwin’s theory of evolution but disagreed sharply as to its implications.
Dr. Ruse wrote like the wind, producing at least 70 books, his family estimates. “He found that he could easily write thousands of words in one sitting,” said Kenneth Dorter, a philosopher recently retired from the University of Guelph, who knew Dr. Ruse since the 1960s. At one point, he figures Dr. Ruse was producing three books a year. “He had all this stuff going on in his head, and it just came pouring out.”
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