Showing posts with label The Biology of the Baroque. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Biology of the Baroque. Show all posts

Sunday, 14 February 2016

Beauty in Nature Challenges Darwinian Evolution



Smolniy Cathedral in Saint Petersburg. Image courtesy of George Shuklin, Creative Commons (CC BY-SA 1.0).



Joel Kontinen

The world around us – or even within us – does not look like it’s the product of Darwinian evolution in which all traits should basically serve the survival of organisms.

What we often see is beauty, redundancy and over-design that does not seem to have any survival value.

One might compare nature with the Baroque, a 17th century artistic style known for its exuberance and grandeur. This is the theme of a new video, The Biology of the Baroque, produced by Discovery Institute, featuring prominent biologist Michael Denton, known for the book Evolution: A Theory in Crisis (1985).

Dr Denton has recently written a new book, Evolution: Still a Theory in Crisis. The video summarises the gist of his thesis: