Re: Are humans irreducibly complex?
Susan Brassfield (susan-brassfield@ou.edu)
Thu, 3 Jun 1999 12:06:25 -0600>On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Bertvan commented:
>
>> I''d be interested in hearing comments about the
>> following web site:
>> http://www.scientificamerican.com/0997issue/0997infocus.html
>>
>> It seems to me somewhere in this research lies an area of compromise.
>> Creationists could find room for claiming it was part of of God's design.
>> Agnostics could settle for Nature's design. ...
>
>No doubt different people will focus on different aspects of this
>research. The people who are most under pressure are the
>Neodarwinists - the research findings do not fit neatly into their
>theory.
that's funny, when I read the article above, the scientists involved didn't
sound like they were under pressure. They sounded fascinated and
interested. And I couldn't quite figure out what part of the interesting
new problem is non-Darwinian--other than the fact that Darwin didn't know
anything about genes.
Susan
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