I Feel That One Species, Mankind, Doesn't

The Issue, As Correctly Emphasized By Carl Sagan, Is The Probability Of The Evolution Of High Intelligence And An Electronic Civilization On An Inhabited World. Once We Have Life (and Almost Surely It Will Be Very Different From Life On Earth), What Is The Probability Of Its Developing A Lineage With High Intelligence? On Earth, Among Millions Of Lineages Of Organisms And Perhaps 50 Billion Speciation Events, Only One Led To High Intelligence; This Makes Me Believe In Its Utter Improbability.

To Take An Unequivocal Stand, It Seems To Me, Is Of Greater Heuristic Value And Far More Likely To Stimulate Constructive Criticism Than To Evade The Issue.

Scientific Progress Consists In The Development Of New Concepts.

On The Other Hand, Famous Evolutionists Such As Dobzhansky Were Firm Believers In A Personal God. He Would Work As A Scientist All Week And Then On Sunday Get Down On His Knees And Pray To God. Frankly I've Never Been Able To Understand It Because You Would Need Two Totally Different Compartments In Your Brain, One That Deals With Religion And The Other With Everything Else.

According To The Concept Of Transformational Evolution, First Clearly Articulated By Lamarck, Evolution Consists Of The Gradual Transformation Of Organisms From One Condition Of Existence To Another.