I agree totally with Olivia Judson of the New York Times that Darwinism is passé. But so is its replacement, Neo-Darwinism. Evolution involves everything, not just biological systems. Galaxies evolve; planets evolve; mountains evolve; societies evolve. The mechanism of evolution proposed by Darwin, natural selection, was only a primitive start (it essentially overemphasized the environment of the systems being studied). When genetics was discovered, biologists were forced to include at least part of the insides of the systems being studied. Darwinism had to be renamed “Neo-Darwinism.” It is time that we recognize that even this mechanism is only a special case of the universal mechanism of evolution. The universal mechanism, which I have termed “univironmental determinism,” states that what happens to a portion of the universe is dependent on the interaction between the microcosm and the macrocosm (i.e., the system and its environment). We need to discuss evolution on a higher level. Fighting a rear-guard action against the creationists (who have now evolved into intelligent designers) may be pedagogically entertaining, but does it lead to the rapid advancement of science? The fact that the evolution vs. creation battle must be fought at all, only shows how far behind we are in the U.S. Folks in other countries pay almost no attention to our debates, simply because so many of them never had to overcome the religious indoctrination so common in the U.S.