Science: November 2006 Archives

From today’s fascinating Pharyngula article, The eye as a contingent, diverse, complex product of evolutionary processes:

… the clumsy organization of the eye clearly indicates that it is the product of an evolutionary process rather than of any kind of intelligent design.

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What we find in molecular biology is flexibility and modularity, attributes that lend themselves well to combinatorial changes that can easily increase complexity—a complexity that is a hallmark of unguided evolutionary change, not design.