Hello everyone > [Arlo] > You're saying amoebas "choose" (via free will) to become "more complex" and > turn into mice? Is that correct? Did they have a "mouse plan" in mind? Or > was > that something that just happened? >
John: Well the way you say it, it almost sounds silly, but basically, yeah. That's the way I think of it. Only the "mouse plan" was writ large in the design and construction of the whole universe, which in some unknown way, needed mouseness and thus brought it about through what is called in human terms, a "cause and effect process". It is the whole which calls forth and defines the particulars, in my worldview. Hi Arlo and John A couple weeks ago, this article ran in the NYT... not sure if anyone else read it (Platt was always good about reading the Times) but it seems related to this discussion: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/15/science/15evolve.html?ref=science Dan comments: Of particular interest is this snip: "Surprisingly, they’ve found that a lot of the genetic equipment for building an animal was in place long before the animal kingdom even existed." Dan comments: What the researchers seem to be saying is that the blueprints for animals were in place long before animals. So one possible answer to the old conundrum of what came first: chicken or egg, might be answered now: the chicken came first! Thoughts? Dan Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
