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• “与肉眼所见的相反，大自然中唯一的钟表匠是盲眼的物理之カ，虽然它的表现方式非常特殊。一个真正的钟表匠是有远见的：他会设计齿轮和弹簧，以及它们要怎么组合起来，这些他都胸有成竹。而达尔文发现的自然选择过程是盲目的、无意识的、自动进行，而且今天我们已经知道，自然选择可以解释生物存在的原因，以及生物多样性的由来。自然选择并不筹划未来。它没有愿景，没有远见，它根本没有眼睛。果它在大自然中扮演着钟表匠的角色，那它也是一个盲眼的钟表匠。” (查看原文)

  芙裳 7赞 2021-09-29 14:46:05

• What is found in biology is mechanisms, mechanisms built with chemical components and that are often modified by other, later mechanisms added to the earlier ones...Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved. It might be thought, therefore, that evolutionary arguments would play a large part in guiding biological research, but this is far from the case. It is difficult enough to study what is happening now. To try to figure out exactly what happened in evolution is even more difficult. Thus evolutionary arguments can usefully be used as hints to suggest possible lines of research, but it is highly dangerous to trust them too much. It is all too easy to make mistaken inferences unless the process involved is already very well understood. (查看原文)

  鲁智深 1赞 2016-11-24 22:03:40

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