Fintan Dunne wrote on Fri, 30 Oct 98
> > >> Bodvar wrote:
> > >> Through this "SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST" Life has grown
> > >> ever more diversified,
> My Query:
> If genes are so focussed and 'selfish' what on earth is the humble catterpillar up to
> when it wraps itself in a cocoon and symbolically dies......only to emerge as a
> transcendent beautiful butterfly.
> Why did it not evolve by REMAINING a catterpillar and continuing to chomp away
> at the cabage instead of going through this incredibly 'wasteful' routine.
> I put it to you that nature is naturally POETIC not MECHANISTIC and that is why.
> The catterpillar is a SYMBOL of transcendance.
> > Lithien
> > i went to the only country that has a musical instrument for its national
> > emblem this summer and can now really understand the passion and intensity
> > behind your words. irish genes are definitely not anglo-saxon.
Dear Fintan and Lithien & Group.
Thanks to Lithien for coming to my rescue after I had used
the catch-phrase "survival of the fittest" which - to Fintan - put me
in company with Richard Dawkins.
The controversy over Darwin is concentrated on the creation vs chance
issue, not on evolution as such. That life on earth has evolved from
simpler organisms to more complex ones is generally accepted (unless
one is a Jehovah's Witness!).
In LILA Pirsig claims to bridge the two views, there is creation (if
not exactly the biblical type) and there is evolution (if not the
accidental type), but as this certainly will come up as a separate
topic someday we'll suspend it - also because we all obviously
agree...... with Fintan's added puzzles too :-).
Bodvar
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