RE: Convergence + protein folding

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    On 10 Aug 2001, at 17:24, Lawrence DeBivort wrote:

    >
    > > One argues logicallly based upon the facts; the alternative, to
    > > argue illogically, always fails to produce a correct conclusion.
    > > Stephen Jay Gould, who dismisses Sheldrake, is arguably a greater
    > > evolutionary theorist than is Dawkins, and I'll just bet that Daniel
    > > Dennett would dismiss him, too.
    >
    > I've been following this thread with interest, but may have missed a
    > critical point: surely no one is saying that Dawkins accepts the
    > notion of 'morphic resonance'?
    >
    Ted Dace has been invoking his name in an insinuendo fashion as
    if to imply as much in so many words, although all he has quoted
    is a passage where Dawkins seems to have difficulty accepting
    that darwinian evolution can account for convergence.
    >
    > - Lawrence
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