From: Stephen E. Jones <sejones@iinet.net.au>
[...]
>As Darwin himself put it, in a letter to the geologist
>Charles Lyell shortly after publication of Origin, "I would give absolutely
>nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous
>additions at any one stage of descent...if I were convinced that I required
>such additions to the theory of natural selection, I would reject it as
>rubbish..." (F. Darwin 1911, vol. 2, pp. 6-7) According to Darwin, then,
>evolution is an algorithmic process." (Dennett D.C., "Darwin 's Dangerous
>Idea: Evolution and The Meanings of Life," [1995], Penguin: London,
>1996, reprint, pp.59-60. Emphasis Dennett's)
This is the passage I referred to in my last reply to Brian, but couldn't
find the text. Thanks for posting it. ;-)
Richard Wein (Tich)
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