Thank heavens--a new paradigm for evolution

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Shaun Johnston:
In modern times we've made two revolutionary discoveries. One is, how changes in physical matter can be accounted for in terms of physical laws that can predict precisely what will happen next. Having given rise to science (how this can be studied) and industry (how it can be applied) this revolution is well under way.

The second revolution is, how emergence of species of living creatures can be accounted for in terms of them evolving from one another. This revolution, despite its promise of how much it could tell us about ourselves, remains stillborn through the mistaken application to it of principles coming out of the first revolution--reductive physicalism.

For this second revolution to advance it should be taken from under the wing of science and studied on its own terms. Tip: one recent product of evolution is creatures with minds. Minds are better studied through methods of the humanities than through those of science. Tell me, does this interest you?

Details: Written by Shaun Johnston Shaun Johnston; Published: April 17, 2011 April 17, 2011; Hits: 3320 3320

In opposition to a theory of evolution that told you nothing (natural selection plus genetic mutation) we get word there's a new paradigm brewing, and it's just as fuzzy. It goes by the buzzwords "self-assembly" and "self-organization." It's detailed in Suzan Mazur's book "The Alternberg 16: An Expose of the Evolution Industry." Among the stellar crowd of experts Suzan's assembled are Richard Dawkins, Stuart Kauffman, Richard Lewontin, Lynn Margulis and Nyles Eldredge. You can read a review.