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

Thanks, Eric.   You jogged my memory.
Richard Dawkins, it was.
Ursula

Ursula Stange wrote:

>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)
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>Mike Geary wrote:
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>>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?
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>>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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