More Denton: My review of my reading so far (Introduction)

by David Turell , Wednesday, March 02, 2016, 15:44 (3188 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: I can only discuss what you tell me as I haven't read the book, but it seems self-evident to me that the advances would be guided by initial structures and constraints. ...“Rules of nature” is what bothers me. There has to be a mechanism within the cell/cell community that enables it to adapt/invent. This leads to two questions: 1) Where did it come from? 2) How does it work? “Rules of nature” answers neither of those questions, and is therefore just as nebulous as all the other hypotheses we come up with, like God, sheer luck, or an evolving panpsychist consciousness. But perhaps Denton will come up with some answers.-Deeper in the book he describes many odd evolutionary circumstances that, in his opinion could not have been solved by Darwin's theory. No answers yet.