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[Platt Holden]

> [Case]
>The theory of evolution is
> also about balance and harmony. Pirsig's system of levels does not work
> without this. If the inorganic level is not balanced, biology does not
> occur. 

If anything, evolution is about unbalance and disharmony, as Pirsig 
explains:

"Phaedrus thought this ambiguity of carbon's bonding preferences was 
the situation the weak Dynamic subatomic forces needed. Carbon bonding 
was a balanced mechanism they could take over. It was a vehicle they 
could steer to all sorts of freedom by selecting first one bonding 
preference and then another in an almost unlimited variety of ways.
And what a variety has been chosen. Today there are more than two 
million known compounds of carbon, roughly twenty times as many as all 
the other known chemical compounds in the world. The chemistry of life 
is the chemistry of carbon. What distinguishes all the species of 
plants and animals is, in the final analysis, differences in the way 
carbon atoms choose to bond."

Dynamic forces took a balanced system at the inorganic level and 
smashed it to pieces, leading to all sorts of new evolutionary forms. 
Similarly, a meteor broke up the balance of the dinosaur's world to 
allow for a whole new world of higher mammals to evolve.

Balance and harmony sounds lovely. But evolution goes nowhere without 
discordant mutations and disordered environmental changes.

Platt