MikeBGene@aol.com wrote:
>Susan:
>>it's the organizing factor. It underlies *all* biological research.
>
>Really? In what way does DE underly all biological research?
Biological researchers refer to DE about as often as surveyors
use spherical trigonometry. But the Earth is still round.
Organizing factor? I think Linnaeus and others are more important
to biology in that sense. DE is a quasi-philosophical idea; scientific,
but so general and long-term and mysterious, so limited in useful
predictive power, that it seems more important to philosophy than
to science.
--Cliff Lundberg ~ San Francisco ~ cliff@noe.com
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