The Fewer Species There Are And The

All Scientists Agree That Evolution Has Occurred-that All Life Comes From A Common Ancestry, That There Has Been Extinction, And That New Taxa, New Biological Groups, Have Arisen. The Question Is, Is Natural Selection Enough To Explain Evolution? Is It The Driver Of Evolution?

Everybody Knows What A Caterpillar Is, And It Doesn't Look Anything Like A Butterfly.

Neo-darwinian Language And Conceptual Structure Itself Ensures Scientific Failure: Major Questions Posed By Zoologists Cannot Be Answered From Inside The Neo-darwinian Straitjacket. Such Questions Include, For Example, 'how Do New Structures Arise In Evolution?' 'why, Given So Much Environmental Change, Is Stasis So Prevalent In Evolution As Seen In The Fossil Record?' 'how Did One Group Of Organisms Or Set Of Macromolecules Evolve From Another?' The Importance Of These Questions Is Not At Issue; It Is Just That Neo-darwinians, Restricted By Their Resuppositions, Cannot Answer Them.

Life On Earth Is More Like A Verb. It Repairs, Maintains, Re-creates, And Outdoes Itself.

Politicians Need A Better Understanding Of Global Ecology. We Need To Be Freed From Our Species-specific Arrogance. No Evidence Exists That We Are Chosen, The Unique Species For Which All The Others Were Made. Nor Are We The Most Important One Because We Are So Numerous, Powerful And Dangerous.