205. Richard Dawkins on evangelizing for evolution, science, skepticism, philosophy, reason, and rationality, based on his book Books Do Furnish a Life: Reading and Writing Science
The Michael Shermer Show
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Convergent Evolution
If we re ran kalfman's again, whether you'd expect to get something like us, i think that's a genuine controversy. I am kind of on the simon conway morris end of that spectrum. And when you see the power of selection to produce o pilbug em crustaceans and and milipedes looking almost exactly alike, i find convergent evolution so impressive. It doesn't mean that it's going to be progress from the origin of life to now, or from some very distant point in the past until now. But if the present mammal fauna wes to go extinct, it wouldn't take that long before progressive evolution would produce features as sophisticated as
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