Alice in evolution land
It would be an illusion to think that what we are aware of at present is any more
than a fraction of the full extent of biological design. In practically every field
of fundamental biological research ever-increasing levels of design and complexity
are being revealed at an ever-accelerating rate. The credibility of natural selection
is weakened, therefore, not only by the perfection we have already glimpsed but
by the expectation of further as yet undreamt of depths of ingenuity and complexity.
To those who still dogmatically advocate that all this new reality is the result
of pure chance one can only reply, like Alice, incredulous in the face of the contradictory
logic of the Red Queen:
‘Alice laughed. “There’s no use trying”, she said. “One
can’t believe impossible things”. “I dare say you haven’t
had much practice,” said the queen. “When I was your age I did it for
half an hour a day. Why sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible
things before breakfast.”’
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