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2009年01月15日
紐西蘭遺傳學家但頓(Michael Denton )在《出現危機的理論:進化論》一書中坦白地說:「達爾文的進化論是二十世紀最大的謊言。」
proverb 發表於 2009-7-8 04:54 
看來作者在2009年1月15日仍然不知道這位Michael Denton雖然不同意達爾文的進化論,卻是有自己的進化論假說的。非要把Denton先生綁架為神創論者,夠無聊的。
J. B. Edelmann, M. J. Denton (2007) 'The uniqueness of biological self-organization: challenging the Darwinian paradigm', Biology and Philosophy, Volume 22, Number 4 / September, 2007.
Abstract: Here we discuss the challenge posed by self-organization to the Darwinian conception of evolution. As we point out, natural selection can only be the major creative agency in evolution if all or most of the adaptive complexity manifest in living organisms is built up over many generations by the cumulative selection of naturally occurring small, random mutations or variants, i.e., additive, incremental steps over an extended period of time. Biological self-organization—witnessed classically in the folding of a protein, or in the formation of the cell membrane—is a fundamentally different means of generating complexity. We agree that self-organizing systems may be fine-tuned by selection and that self-organization may be therefore considered a complementary mechanism to natural selection as a causal agency in the evolution of life. But we argue that if self-organization proves to be a common mechanism for the generation of adaptive order from the molecular to the organismic level, then this will greatly undermine the Darwinian claim that natural selection is the major creative agency in evolution. We also point out that although complex self-organizing systems are easy to create in the electronic realm of cellular automata, to date translating in silico simulations into real material structures that self-organize into complex forms from local interactions between their constituents has not proved easy. This suggests that self-organizing systems analogous to those utilized by biological systems are at least rare and may indeed represent, as pre-Darwinists believed, a unique ascending hierarchy of natural forms. Such a unique adaptive hierarchy would pose another major challenge to the current Darwinian view of evolution, as it would mean the basic forms of life are necessary features of the order of nature and that the major pathways of evolution are determined by physical law, or more specifically by the self-organizing properties of biomatter, rather than natural selection. |
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