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Until now, that is. Harvard Medical School Assistant Professor of Pathology James S. Michaelson has written in a soon-to-be-published paper that Darwinian processes "provide the dominant force in development" and that "cell death is more a cause, than a result, of developmental organization...
Scientists have long wondered how a two-celled zygote develops into a complex organism such as a human. Michaelson's new findings seem to suggest that Darwinian processes of cell selection provide a basis for development. In other words, those cells best fit to survive embryonic development and life as an organism are chosen...
...clutch to the ear an object that looks ignominiously like the shining plastic cousin of a shoe. Designers have produced more streamlined models, but an essential ungainliness is inescapable. It results partly from the pressing of technology against anatomy. The technosmooth circuitry is pushed bizarrely against the old Darwinian skull. The talker's being comes unfocused from the visual immediate room and refocuses -- through the ear! -- elsewhere. The Here communes with There through sudden activations of breath, vocal cords, jawbone, tongue, lips, eyes, emotions. Through the thing held to the ear, we hear voices from another world. We would...
Soon the argument attained a higher judicial level. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia with Chief Justice William Rehnquist, joining in dissent from the 1987 decision, cited testimony that "creation science" merits equal class time with Darwinian evolution as a competing theory of the origin of life...
...singled out for a special creation in God's own image. They continue to insist that there are no transitional forms in the fossil record, no "missing links," though the Olduvai Gorge, along with other African sites, provides a procession of evolving hominids, mute but eloquent witnesses to our Darwinian past, including those children of the dawn, the australopithecines, the little "southern apes" who walked like...