St. Thomas & Darwinism (Introduction)

by David Turell , Saturday, February 19, 2011, 20:33 (5005 days ago) @ xeno6696


> As for the site, this claim is preposterous:
> 
> "For Darwinism suggests that any matter can potentially morph into any other arrangement of matter without the aid of an organizing principle. "-I have to fully agree with you on that sentence. I was skimming the paper last night before posting it, and missed that statement.-
> Further, evolution as described by Pigliucci and other molecular biologists, identify the genome as the organizing principle. This wasn't available to Darwin, but the author conveniently ignores this. If the Central Dogma is true, then all genes map to specific proteins which all should manifest some phenotypical change in an organism. -Some genes, HOX particularly are organizing genes, not protein specific. We still have the problem of punctuated equilibrium to solve. It does look as if some 'morphing' is going on in the large jumps in phenotype that seem to occur.Jeffrey Schwarz, "Sudden Origins" 1999, is a very thorough discussion of this,as his title indicates.