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Originally Posted by Daradon
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Can you explain this? Or the idea behind this? It's just such an interesting statement I'm not sure I understand.
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From Wikipedia:
Nothing Makes Sense in Biology Except in the Light of Evolution is a 1973 essay by Evolutionary Biologist (and Russian Orthodox Christian) Theodosius Dobzhansky.
The statement itself was first published by Dobzhansky in a 1964 article in American Zoologist, to assert the importance of organismic biology in response to the challenge of molecular biology.
The essay criticizes anti-evolutionary creationism and espouses theistic evolutionism.
The notion of "the light of evolution" came originally from the Jesuit priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin who wrote:
"(Evolution) is a general postulate to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems must henceforward bow and which they must satisfy in order to be thinkable and true. Evolution is a light which illuminates all facts, a trajectory which all lines of thought must follow — this is what evolution is."
link to the wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing...t_of_Evolution
The Essay itself:
http://people.delphiforums.com/lordorman/light.htm
and I think that Teilhard quote is going to be my new signature.