Colloquium Papers: Darwin's greatest discovery: Design without designer. Ayala, F. J Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 104 Suppl 1:8567-73, 2007. doi abstract bibtex Darwin's greatest contribution to science is that he completed the Copernican Revolution by drawing out for biology the notion of nature as a system of matter in motion governed by natural laws. With Darwin's discovery of natural selection, the origin and adaptations of organisms were brought into the realm of science. The adaptive features of organisms could now be explained, like the phenomena of the inanimate world, as the result of natural processes, without recourse to an Intelligent Designer. The Copernican and the Darwinian Revolutions may be seen as the two stages of the one Scientific Revolution. They jointly ushered in the beginning of science in the modern sense of the word: explanation through natural laws. Darwin's theory of natural selection accounts for the "design" of organisms, and for their wondrous diversity, as the result of natural processes, the gradual accumulation of spontaneously arisen variations (mutations) sorted out by natural selection. Which characteristics will be selected depends on which variations happen to be present at a given time in a given place. This in turn depends on the random process of mutation as well as on the previous history of the organisms. Mutation and selection have jointly driven the marvelous process that, starting from microscopic organisms, has yielded orchids, birds, and humans. The theory of evolution conveys chance and necessity, randomness and determinism, jointly enmeshed in the stuff of life. This was Darwin's fundamental discovery, that there is a process that is creative, although not conscious.
@Article{Ayala2007,
author = {Francisco J Ayala},
journal = {Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A},
title = {Colloquium {P}apers: {D}arwin's greatest discovery: {D}esign without designer.},
year = {2007},
pages = {8567-73},
volume = {104 Suppl 1},
abstract = {Darwin's greatest contribution to science is that he completed the
Copernican Revolution by drawing out for biology the notion of nature
as a system of matter in motion governed by natural laws. With Darwin's
discovery of natural selection, the origin and adaptations of organisms
were brought into the realm of science. The adaptive features of
organisms could now be explained, like the phenomena of the inanimate
world, as the result of natural processes, without recourse to an
Intelligent Designer. The Copernican and the Darwinian Revolutions
may be seen as the two stages of the one Scientific Revolution. They
jointly ushered in the beginning of science in the modern sense of
the word: explanation through natural laws. Darwin's theory of natural
selection accounts for the "design" of organisms, and for their wondrous
diversity, as the result of natural processes, the gradual accumulation
of spontaneously arisen variations (mutations) sorted out by natural
selection. Which characteristics will be selected depends on which
variations happen to be present at a given time in a given place.
This in turn depends on the random process of mutation as well as
on the previous history of the organisms. Mutation and selection
have jointly driven the marvelous process that, starting from microscopic
organisms, has yielded orchids, birds, and humans. The theory of
evolution conveys chance and necessity, randomness and determinism,
jointly enmeshed in the stuff of life. This was Darwin's fundamental
discovery, that there is a process that is creative, although not
conscious.},
doi = {10.1073/pnas.0701072104},
keywords = {17494753},
}
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