Reinventing the Sacred, legendary complexity pioneer Stuart Kauffman continues to challenge the view of most biologists that natural selection is the only source of order. However, Kauffman is more charitable than hundreds of other evolutionary scientists (non-Creationists) who contend that natural selection is politics, not science, and that we are in a quagmire because of staggering commerical investment in a Darwinian industry built on an inadequate theory.
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Fast forwarding a half billion years, Newman’s got a very interesting article in the March 2008 issue of Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, called "Evolution: The Public’s Problem and the Scientists’" in which he observes that:
"The nearly exclusive focus on genes to account for biological change at the levels of both individual development and large-scale evolution, like the cash nexus of market economies, collapses quality into quantity, life into symbol."
Speaking of symbols, Ben Stein’s Expelled film people contacted me "to get involved" with the project after reading the Altenberg story. Curiously, they take a pro-war position, and I have not responded to them.
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Long hard to follow and rambleing article , with a few interesting tid bits.
How did "self Organisation " get started?