Hi All,
Isn't "Oops versus God" exactly the sort of Platypus that the MOQ
resolves? Doesn't the MOQ give us an alternative?
There's no "opps" in the MOQ and no gods required in it either. The MOQ
explains this problem of evolution:
"It seems clear that no mechanistic pattern exists toward which life is
heading, but has the question been taken up of whether life is heading
away from mechanistic patterns?...This would explain why patterns of
life do not change solely in accord with causative "mechanisms" or
"programs" or blind operations of physical laws. They do not just
change valuelessly. They change in ways that evade, override and
circumvent these laws. The explanation of life as a "migration of
static patterns toward Dynamic Quality" not only fitted the known facts
of evolution, it allowed new ways of interpreting them. Biological
evolution can be seen as a process by which weak Dynamic forces at a
subatomic level discover stratagems for overcoming huge static
inorganic forces at a superatomic level. They do this by selecting
superatomic mechanisms in which a number of options are so evenly
balanced that a weak Dynamic force can tip the balance one way or
another...Certainly there's no hint of any miraculous powers waiting to
spring chemistry professors upon a lifeless planet."
Best,
Steve
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