What if evolution were true, but it wasn’t quite like Darwin said?
What if there were a new evolutionary model that could explain why fossils show almost no change for millions of years…. then suddenly the Cambrian Explosion: Thousands of new species emerge intact, virtually overnight.
What if this new theory pointed the way to new innovations in artificial intelligence and adaptive computer programs?
What if “Evolution vs. Design” wasn’t an either/or proposition – but both+and?
What if, instead of arguing endlessly about fossils, we could precisely track evolutionary history with the precision of 1’s and 0’s?
Charles Darwin believed behaviors a parent learned during his or her lifetime could be passed to children. Many scientists of the time believed that. It was called “Lamarckism” after Lamarck who first proposed the theory.
Later, the Neo-Darwinists laughed Lamarckism right out of the academy. “Silly Lamarck, he didn’t know that DNA mutations are all accidental.” Lamarck was scorned for 100 years.
Turns out both Darwin and Lamarck were right! And as you see in this PBS video, your body is capable of passing an amazing set of adaptations to your children, as epigenetics adapts to situations in real time.
Epigenetics is HOT. It is fast revolutionizing the science of evolution, genetics, and nutrition.
Have you ever thought about WHY you have to take the entire bottle of antibiotics every time you get a sinus infection?
Because a regular ole’ bug can become a SUPERBUG in about 10 minutes.
Unless you napalm the bacteria wreaking havoc on your immune system into oblivion, the tiny little bastards will come back stronger and harder to kill.
And, you, my friend, become the battleground for an all-out war between superbugs and t-cells.
All because of an evolutionary process known as “horizontal gene transfer”.
There are ENORMOUS implications for this in business.
….and most people have NEVER even heard about it.
I go into all of those ideas in-depth (and more) in my new book, Evolution 2.0. Watch the video below where I discuss superbugs and kaizen.
One of the most appealing aspects of Young Earth Creationism is, it offers a simple, trouble-free view of God. “God made everything perfect. It was just us HUMANS who messed everything up. It’s all OUR fault.”
Reader Daniel, a Christian, asked:
“I have to say you have a very interesting take on the Bible then. If Adam and Eve were real people and did not do the original sin like you suggest then where did death and suffering come from? Surely God did not create via suffering, that would be an affront to his glory.“
Long-time blog follower “Old Git Tom” poked the beast with this comment:
“It is preposterous to call Darwin’s Natural Selection (NS) theory of bio-evolution ‘successful’. It remains a failed hypothesis.
It was never even a valid scientific one. It is a tautology; it it is self-reinforcing, circular.
The NS merry-go-round goes this way:
1. Fitness determines survival.
2. Survival is proved by all the organisms that exist, or ever did.
3. Therefore, existence proves fitness, & all life-forms prove natural selection’s correctness.
This kind of circular proposition is as unshakably true (and unscientific) as the statement, “I am my mother’s son”.
As such, it is not scientific, since it’s unfalsifiable under ANY experimental test.”
Tom is not disputing the adaptive process evolution itself. Nor is he disputing the activity of Natural Selection. There’s always a few winners and many losers.
What he is saying is that “Evolution Through Natural Selection” is a non-explanation of how evolution actually produces winners.
Saying “Mammals evolved by natural selection” is like saying “The Seahawks made it to the Super Bowl by winning the playoffs.”
That might be a perfectly satisfactory answer to a person who has no interest whatsoever in the minutiae of football games… but no true football enthusiast would be content with it.
“A minimal cell is usually defined as a cell in which all genes are essential. This definition is incomplete, because the genetic requirements for survival, and therefore the minimal genome size, depend on the environment in which the cell is grown. The work described here has been conducted in medium that supplies virtually all the small molecules required for life. A minimal genome determined under such permissive conditions should reveal a core set of environment-independent functions that are necessary and sufficient for life. Under less permissive conditions, we expect that additional genes will be required.”
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