Re: Richard Dawkins on Specified Complexity

raven1 wrote:
> On 15 Jan 2006 10:42:31 -0800, "Tiny Bulcher" <RSGD9000@xxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>
>>C.J.W. wrote:
>>
>>>We can be very sure there really is a single concestor of all
>>>surviving life forms on this planet. The evidence is that all that have
>>>ever been examined share (exactly in most cases, almost exactly in the
>>>rest) the same genetic code; and the genetic code is too detailed, in
>>>arbitrary aspects of its complexity, to have been invented twice.
>>>Although not every species has been examined, we already have enough
>>>coverage to be pretty certain that no surprises - alas - await us.
>>>
>>>(The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
>>>By Richard Dawkins :7) (Emphasis added)
>>>
>>>I just began reading this book. It seems that it will be amusing. For
>>>if all that man is or ever will be is an organism, then Darwinism is
>>>its excrement. And excrement always gives us a sense of our own humors,
>>>another benefit is that it can keep us humble, as long as we do not
>>>totally forget our distinctions and how humans are not just humus, even
>>>if we are brought forth from it. If we seek a lack of judgment about
>>>such things and call that humility we will degenerate into crud even as
>>>we live, a crudity which is no laughing matter.
>>
>><snip>
>>
>>What? I didn't understand *any* of that.
>
>
> Whew! I thought maybe I was missing something there!
> --
>
> "O Sybilli, si ergo
> Fortibus es in ero
> O Nobili! Themis trux
> Sivat sinem? Causen Dux"
>

This is very easy to understand, even for you. What exactly flustered you?

Nicola

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