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Wilber's reputation with scientific evolutionists is bad because he made some statements about (the evolution) of wings that they came to castigate, and opened him up to being accused of speaking about something he doesn't understand: that is scientific evolution.
Therefore, Wilber is sort of in the middle, it seems to me, in the evolution debate, somewhere between the intelligent design folks, and the strict scientific evolutionist who don't want to hear the word God, or creator in the same sentence as evolution.
Though people who critique Wilber on this matter don't understand that he is bringing (or trying to) bring something to the debate that has been left out of it. He is attempting to investigate psychological, and, or spiritual issues relating to evolution that the dense scientific evolutionist leave out of their theories.
Here is where I agree with Wilber, (though on other issues relating to evolution I disagree with him) in that the vaunted scientific evolutionist don't know, or don't know how to, deal with the (UL) quadrant issue (unseen spirit) because of their [the scientists] ignorance.
I am with Ken Wilber here
I think Wilber gets in trouble because he is trying to goad the scientific community to investigate spiritual issues, (above and beyond, of course, the Para-psychological field conundrum of "non scientific ideas" that many scientific spiritual practitioners get boxed into) whereas the scientific materialists just don't accept anything they can't see (UL quadrant) as being valid phenomena, therefore they don't consider Wilber's interests scientific.
That to me is unfortunate, and is the prime issue of Wilberian philosophy, attempting to merge science and spirituality, that he has not succeeded in doing.
I think he will not succeed, because today the the scientific community has become as intolerant to spiritual issues, as the medieval clerics were intolerant to scientific issues in their time.