[lit-ideas] Re: small addendum to Matrix as philosophy

The best analogy I've ever heard to explain this comes from ***** (can't 
remember...).
It points to the amazing fact that not a single one of your millions of 
ancestors died childless.
That's it.  That's all.
Ursula  (almostgoodenough)

Mike Geary wrote:

>What has always bothered me about evolution is how organs of perception with 
>all their specificity to purpose could have ever evolved through the blind 
>chance of genetic mutation?  It's not just the incredible 
>structural-functional specificity of an eye or ear, but their integration 
>with the brain and the brain's ability to construct meaning from the 
>neuronal input from those organs.  How can that all come together without an 
>architect?
>
>Five or so years ago I came across a book -- an extended essay, really --  
>_The Sacred Depths Of Nature_ by Ursula Goodenough, a cell biologist at 
>Washington University.  It's a popularized look by a cell biologist at how 
>evolution happens at the cellular level, which, she says, is not as a 
>willy-nilly happenstance, but a physics-determined outcome of biochemistry. 
>The book is a wonderful mix of biology, poetry and reverence for existence. 
>A reverence beyond God.  Reverence born out of our human love for existence. 
>I recommend the book strongly to anyone who wrestles with these questions.
>
>Mike Geary
>Memphis 
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