"The neo-Darwinian synthesis conceptually separates evolutionary dynamics into two components: genetic diversification and selection. Selection has been the main thrust of much research while diversification is often considered essentially random and largely context-independent. Experimental studies showed however, that the mechanisms responsible for genetic variation are not purely random, and that the sequence-specificity, spectrum and timing of various mutational or DNA repair mechanisms is quite variable. Consequently, the population of genetic changes exhibits significant structure, both temporally and with respect to position in sequence space. Evolutionary models do not, in general, take advantage of the fine structure of the population of achievable genetic variants of genes. ..."   more »

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Thanks Rich and Aster for beautiful meditations. Below is a nice meditation on the mindset that, without too much effort, can be tied to (corporate) globalization and many other (non-conscious) materialistic events of the day. It is from www.darwinismrefuted.com. don

Self-Organization: A Materialist Dogma

The claim that evolutionists maintain with the concept of "self-organization" is the belief that inanimate matter can organize itself and generate a complex living thing. This is an utterly unscientific conviction: Observation and experiment have incontrovertibly proven that matter has no such property. The famous English astronomer and mathematician Sir Fred Hoyle notes that matter cannot generate life by itself, without deliberate interference: ...   more »

Interesting, thanks--but it doesn't feel like my brain is evolving:) michael   more »

Interesting article and even more interesting is its prominent placement. On the front page of The New York Times ...   more »