Would be interesting to hear what you disagreed with Holland on in the Christianity episode? That episode and yours on Darwin have been my favourites so far.
I never understood why Darwinism is that revolutionary scientifically, it actually doesn’t explain much except post hoc. The discovery of DNA genomes is infinitely more explanatory. However, it does stimulate the imagination more than any idea since the invention of the periodic table, I’ll credit that
Looking forward to listening to these podcasts—and reading the book. I’m currently working on the second draft of my long-threatened book about looking at the world through Darwin’s eyes. As revolutionaries go, he was certainly one of the most important—and one of the gentlest.
Agree 100% with your assessment of Darwin, Adam. Who could read these words and not be stunned by both their beauty and brilliance?
"As many more individuals of each species are born than can possibly survive; and as, consequently, there is a frequently recurring struggle for existence, it follows that any being, if it vary however slightly in any manner profitable to itself, under the complex and sometimes varying conditions of life, will have a better chance of surviving, and thus be naturally selected. From the strong principle of inheritance, any selected variety will tend to propagate its new and modified form. Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. " — Charles Darwin
The fact that a few elementary particles are enough to make up all the atoms and hence everything that's out there staggers the mind only mildly… But the fact that those atoms can stick together to form all kinds of molecules, and that this wondrous chemistry leads to life and it's evolutionary journey is truly mind blowing…
Would be interesting to hear what you disagreed with Holland on in the Christianity episode? That episode and yours on Darwin have been my favourites so far.
I never understood why Darwinism is that revolutionary scientifically, it actually doesn’t explain much except post hoc. The discovery of DNA genomes is infinitely more explanatory. However, it does stimulate the imagination more than any idea since the invention of the periodic table, I’ll credit that
Looking forward to listening to these podcasts—and reading the book. I’m currently working on the second draft of my long-threatened book about looking at the world through Darwin’s eyes. As revolutionaries go, he was certainly one of the most important—and one of the gentlest.
Agree 100% with your assessment of Darwin, Adam. Who could read these words and not be stunned by both their beauty and brilliance?
"As many more individuals of each species are born than can possibly survive; and as, consequently, there is a frequently recurring struggle for existence, it follows that any being, if it vary however slightly in any manner profitable to itself, under the complex and sometimes varying conditions of life, will have a better chance of surviving, and thus be naturally selected. From the strong principle of inheritance, any selected variety will tend to propagate its new and modified form. Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. " — Charles Darwin
Yes I am persuaded. Truly fascinating this topic and I will buy the book. Promise. But.... I won't fight you, and I won't write an essay by next week.
The fact that a few elementary particles are enough to make up all the atoms and hence everything that's out there staggers the mind only mildly… But the fact that those atoms can stick together to form all kinds of molecules, and that this wondrous chemistry leads to life and it's evolutionary journey is truly mind blowing…