RE: New guy with questions
January 25, 2014 at 12:38 am
(This post was last modified: January 25, 2014 at 12:49 am by Mudhammam.)
(January 24, 2014 at 11:40 pm)The Last Lamenter Wrote: What are two other books, besides things from Dawkins, which you could recommend?
Darwin's Dangerous Idea by Daniel Dennett is excellent.
(January 25, 2014 at 12:12 am)ChadWooters Wrote:(January 24, 2014 at 11:58 pm)rasetsu Wrote:
The how generally informs the why.
Why would that be?
Because how questions involve "retro-engineering," developing "Just So Stories" and making predictions based on them. Why do humans have eyes? That is a question largely answered by the "how," the biological evolution through gene recombination, mutations, and selective pressures that caused Pax6 to become a highly beneficial regulatory "light-detecting gene," to greatly oversimplify, for some lineages on the Tree of Life.
