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Old 11-25-2009, 01:07 AM   #303
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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.
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.

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