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   bFastSeptember 5, 2008 at 10:53 am

   Thanks DaveScot,

   I see a number of intriguing things in these videos.

   1 – Kauffman does a fairly good job of describing the mystery that exists in biology.

   2 – I have spent some energy puzzling about fish bladders. The current theory, the theory he suggests, for how fish bladders arose is that they developed out of lung fish. However, I believe that salmon, and salmonoids such as trout have fish bladders. How did these fish get fish bladders if fish bladders are lungs. This hypothesis seems ludicrous to me.

   3 – Kauffman suggests that we worship the creativity of nature, but that we don’t recognize thiis creativity as “God”. In this he does a few things — he brings the biological sciences way into the realm of religion, and he maintains his status with the community as a secularist.

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   tragicmishapSeptember 5, 2008 at 12:51 pm

   I thought only reductionist physicists believed in a ToE. Energy crisis, religion, science, intelligence. Everything is reducible to self-organizational principles. Will the real reductionist please stand up?

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   JehuSeptember 5, 2008 at 4:43 pm

   All right, this is off topic but I had to give a heads up.

   Over at the Onion.

   Evolutionists Flock To Darwin-Shaped Wall Stain

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