Sublime

Comme l’écrivit Gruber, les activités d’un créateur « peuvent paraître de l’extérieur comme un ménage déroutant » mais il, ou elle, est capable de « relier » chaque activité à une des entreprises en cours. « Sur certains plans, a conclu Gruber, les plus grandes œuvres de Charles Darwin sont des compilations interprétatives de faits au préalable réu

has been developing a theory for how and why our hunter-gatherer ancestors made the crucial transition to sedentary communities that eventually led to city formation.

A closer look shows that the hierarchies are constructed on a “building block” principle: subsystems at each level of the hierarchy are constructed by combinations of small numbers of subsystems from the next lower level.

These are all highly contestable statements.

creationists ask, rhetorically, “where does all the information in the DNA come from?” and Darwin’s answer is simple: it comes from the gradual, purposeless, nonmiraculous transformation of noise into signal, over billions of years.

Layer by layer, the mud of the sea bed builds up, and each layer contains the remains of the creatures best suited to the climate at the time that layer was being laid down.