Vanessa writes:
What I am advocating is to put aside prejudice (rife in this forum) and with fresh eyes look to Nature to understand evolution.
Nature develops life through identifiable systems and processes but we choose to explain the evolution of life as the result of arbitrary cosmic events and chromosomal abnormalities. But this is not how Nature works - look at how a plant grows, how a baby gestates, how a butterfly forms - in each case the development of life is part of a system with transformative stages - just like our fossil record. Does this not make you curious?
Hi Vanessa, I have read your posts and, im my opinion, they are intelligent, cognent not encumbered by the ideological assumptions often made by the conventional evolutionary determinists.
While there are random adapative changes resulting from natural selection, this does not explain the whole theory of evolution.
I recommend you read James A. Shapiro's "Evolution, a view from the 21st century". Shapiro is a professor of Microbiology at the University of Chicago.
His book is a summary of the papers he has written in the past and most of those papers can be accesed from his web site at the Univ of Chicago.
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