RE: Vision and Evolution (A Critique of Dawkins)
August 4, 2019 at 10:07 am
(This post was last modified: August 4, 2019 at 10:14 am by The Grand Nudger.)
assuming anything happened in a single step is the easiest way to get the entirety of evolutionary theory wrong.
The same is true of assuming all-or-nothing development.
To use the same example again, we might posit that the structure evolved for moving in liquid water is expensive outside of water, but a VOC pump says otherwise. None of the structures evolved simultaneously, in a single step, or as an all or nothing gambit.
They didn’t even arise from the same evolutionary pathways.
That delayed systems run into issues is made thoroughly apparent in the piles of bones beneath our feet. We’re what remains of those delayed systems.
The same is true of assuming all-or-nothing development.
To use the same example again, we might posit that the structure evolved for moving in liquid water is expensive outside of water, but a VOC pump says otherwise. None of the structures evolved simultaneously, in a single step, or as an all or nothing gambit.
They didn’t even arise from the same evolutionary pathways.
That delayed systems run into issues is made thoroughly apparent in the piles of bones beneath our feet. We’re what remains of those delayed systems.
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