Origin of Life: early land life (Introduction)

by David Turell , Friday, August 09, 2013, 15:32 (4125 days ago) @ dhw
edited by unknown, Friday, August 09, 2013, 15:38

dhw:In this post, you have argued that Darwin's theory of natural selection is less major than he would have wished. You are therefore saying that his pattern is not built into reality in the way he thought it was, but that he is imposing his own (false) pattern on it.-I feel sorry for poor Darwin. He took what he observed in breeding, his knowledge of species and of the layers of geology, and developed a logical theory for his level of knowledge. Just as we are discussing the confusion of classical physicists as they are forced to digest the findings of QM, current clasical Darwinists are fighting tooth and nail to preserve his ancient thoughts. It isn't working. Natural selection as a final arbitor, has nothing to do with speciation. It sorts out variation in species to refine the species. The fossil record shows that new forms arrive de novo, working well. Where was natural selection at that time? Read Shapiro carefully. He is deconstructing Darwnism.