Table of Contents
Preface vii
Chapter 1 Evolution as a Scientific Pseudofact 1
The Meaning of Evolution 1
General Notes 2
Evolution Without Know-how 4
Two Scientific Difficulties in Evolutionary Theory 5
Chapter 2 Biogenes is by Chance? Part I 9
The Formation of the Building Blocks of Life
The Formation of the Building Blocks From a Chemical 9
Point of View
Spontaneous Biogenesis in Primeval Oceans? 13
Properties of the Building Blocks of Life: The Amino Acids 14
And Their Chirality
Manfred Eigen's Explanation of the Origin of the 23
Chirality Required by Biogenesis
Further Synthetical Difficulties 31
Chapter 3 Biogenes is by Chance? Part II 33
Linkage of the Building Blocks
The Standard Scheme 33
The Standard Scheme is Somewhat Modified 34
The Standard Scheme is Further Modified 35
The Different Types of Proteins 38
Autoorganization 43
Several Important Prerequisites and Consequences 44
The Preprogramming of Proteins 45
Proposition: The Paper Writes the Book 47
A Modern Point of View 48
The Sound Lens in Dolphins 50
Chapter 4 The Genesis of Biological Information 53
The Problem of Information in Archebiopoesis 53
The Problem of Transformism and Its Financing With 60
New Information
Entropy and Information 62
Chapter 5 Programmed by Chance? 67
Chance as a Programming Agent 67
The Nature of the Cell's Program 69
Manfred Eigen's Glass Beads 75
The Nature of Language 77
Language Conventions 81
Translation 87
Summary 89
Chapter 6 Time Spans and Dating Methods: 91
Their Relation to the Question of Intelligence and
The Origin of Species
Time Spans and Dating 91
Index Fossils 102
The C14. Dating 1"1. ethod 109
Constancy of the C14 Concentration in the Atmosphere 112
The Influence of the Earth's Magnetic Field on C14. Synthesis 112
Some Consequences 118
Other Dating Methods 120
Summary 121
Chapter 7 Microevolution, Transformism, and Concepts 123
Are Mutations and Natural Selection Sufficient to 123
Account for Evolution?
Survival of Those Organisms Producing the Greatest 127
Number of Offspring
Stabalization of Species Boundaries 128
Missing Links Incapable of Survival 130
A Few Consequences 133
A Variant View: Machine and Concept 133
Chance and Machinery 136
Machinery at a Molecular Level 137
Source of Concepts and Ideas 141
Prospect 147
Appendix 149
The Seven Main Postulates of the Theory of Evolution 149
The Three Laws of Thermodynamics 150
Symmetry and Pairing of Biological Organs 151
Human Brain and Evolution 152
Optical Activity in Biological Macroevolution 154
New Finds in the Paluxy River Bed, Glen Rose, Texas, USA 160
Index 163

Author	Arthur Ernest Wilder-Smith
Language	English
Category	Book
Date	1982
Media	Text, Picture
Pages	182
ID	34551

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The Natural Sciences Know Nothing of Evolution

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