Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Sunday, January 31, 2016
DUCKS ON FROZEN LAKE
As ducks congregate on the frozen lake, I am struck once again by the degree to which self-organization saturates every sphere of existence, from interstellar to subatomic levels. That manifestation negates random chance as the principal organizational fact for existence of life. Random chance may well be 1/64 of the cluster, as ancient Egyptian sages had held, and demonstrated with their depictions in eye glyphs, but that ancient fact also derides Charles Darwin's work, which had elevated random chance, or natural selection, as it is called, to primacy!