tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13617569.post9137038654825114073..comments2024-03-27T02:13:58.088-07:00Comments on Integral Options Cafe: Seed - Extending Darwinismwilliam harrymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06981478282688361274noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13617569.post-21965207092399975852009-01-10T15:14:00.000-07:002009-01-10T15:14:00.000-07:00Here is the excerpt from my article related to the...Here is the excerpt from my article related to the role of the epigenetic control system of the organism in biological evolution. The whole article and the book is presented at MISAHA’s site: www.misaha.com<BR/><BR/>Please contact me if interested.<BR/>Savely Savva<BR/><BR/>Biofield Control System and Biological Evolution<BR/><BR/>In the current discussion between promoters of ‘Intelligent Design’ (ID) and Neo-Darwinists, M. Behe is absolutely persuasive in showing the “irreducible complexity” of the blocks of a living organism such as the eye, cellular cilium or bacterial flagellum, etc16. These and other most complex organizations could not possibly emerge by random (undirected) mutations. Emergence of a new species is associated not with just one mutation but with a long chain of mutations that are clearly not random and must occur simultaneously. Until the whole chain is accomplished, the individual, let alone a population or the whole species, would not have any advantage in adaptation selection, as J. Bockris noted in his book.17 This was understood by many distinguished biologists like Lev S. Berg who wrote his Nomogenesis in 1922—there must be laws determining ontogenesis as well as phylogenesis and there is no place for randomness in the biological evolution.18 <BR/>The problem with the current discussion is that it seems more ideological than scientific. Darwinism from the beginning enjoyed an overwhelming support of the scientific community because it presented an alternative to the religious creationism. Then, it became a dogma with the same function as any religious dogma—to keep the social organization stable, in this case the scientific community. However, the actual alternative to Darwinism is not Intelligent Design but the broadening of the scientific paradigm. To paraphrase Einstein, an Omnipotent Designer would not “play dice,” he would know what he wants to begin with. He would not leave abundant dead ends on the branches of the evolutionary tree still providing a reasonable food chain—the omega point in terms of Teilhard d’Chardin. And indeed in the religion mythology he starts with Adam and Eve.<BR/>One cannot exclude some intelligence behind the whole Universe, but this intelligence must have produced all the physical forces, laws of their interactions and universal constants, including those yet unknown interaction that are responsible for emergence of life. This idea is not anymore unreal than the Big Bang or Chaos as the starting point of the Universe (I. Prigogine would not claim that life started out of chaos).<BR/>The postulated concept of the biofield control system may bring biological evolution back into the realm of science. Considering the obvious role of the “mother”—the egg, the ants colony, etc. in the embryonic development (see development program above), one can assume that the mother’s BCS (its reproduction program) can cause changes in the biofield control system of the embryo and consequent simultaneous genetic changes in the embryo. This is what can explain not only the Lamarckian examples of the giraffe’s neck and the bird’s legs elongation but the whole evolutionary process. Back in 1954 biologist Curt Stern mentioned the possibility of the biofield participation in the mutagenesis and evolution.19 Thus, the proverbial question “What came first—the chicken or the egg?” remains open: the chicken’s mother might have been a pre-chicken with a transformed BCS.<BR/>The adaptation selection at the population level may play a more significant role in the intraspecies evolution. V. Geodakian suggested that the gene pool of the male part of a population has a broader distribution with respect to the sensitivity to environmental changes than that of the female part. Changes in the environment eliminate a part of the male population causing the shift of the population gene pool toward greater resistance to that environmental factor.20 <BR/>What might have occurred in biological evolution is that some global factor(s) periodically interfered with the biofield control systems of many living organisms changing the “mothers’” reproductive programs and these, in turn, substantially and simultaneously changed genomes of the prodigy organisms. Global forces that caused directed mutagenesis, for instance during the Cambrian period, most likely worked not at the chemical (genes) level. This is another reason to learn the physics of the BCS.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com