A new theory (Introduction)

by David Turell , Wednesday, May 22, 2013, 01:20 (4204 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: It seems to me that if you put all these factors together ... rejection of randomness, interaction between organisms and environment, inheritance of acquired characteristics, communication and cooperation between all the cells and sets of cells ... the picture entails just the sort of mechanism we have been discussing. .......would not this "new theory" suggest that the "intelligent cell" might after all be more accurate terminology than the "intelligent genome"?-I don't think the name is important. What comes across is that the cell as a unit and its genome contain a tremendous amount of infomation which is used very efficiently at several levels of activity. It is obvious the cell coordinates its parts, BUT, we still have no idea how species appear. This new knowledge still does not provide an answer, but the Darwin theory of gradualism, in face of this new info, looks much less likely to provide the answer. To paraphrase Dawkins, it is not climing Mt. Improbable that seems to work. It is leaping up the mountain by an unknown process.