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Excerpt from the article: "Symmetry in Evolution" |
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![]() Is man the result of a purposeless and natural process that did not have him in mind? Click wall picture to go to Answers In Genesis article at answersingenesis.org. |
by Phillip L. Engle |
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"If, in fact, evolutionary macrodevelopmental bifurcations were dominantly merely spatial, and if true typological speciation no longer occurs today (with the exception of small-scale polyploidal speciation among plants), and if Robert Broom and John A. Davison are correct in asserting that, among animals, not a single new genus has appeared in the last two million years and that the last genus to appear was Homo and the last species to appear was Homo sapiens, then it may very well be the case that the emergence of mankind and human society was truly the goal towards which the macrodevelopment of the biosphere has been aiming all along (just as the fully-formed biological individual is the evident goal towards which the development of the embryo aims). "Such an understanding of the place of man in the biosphere would, of course, be diametrically opposite to the view of neo-Darwinism, according to which "man is the result of a purposeless and natural process that did not have him in mind."" Read the full article by Phillip L. Engle.... |
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