[MD] Oops versus God ?

[Steve Peterson]

Hi All,

Isn't "Oops versus God" exactly the sort of Platypus that the MOQ 
resolves? Doesn't the MOQ give us an alternative?

There's no "opps" in the MOQ and no gods required in it either. The MOQ 
explains this problem of evolution:

"It seems clear that no mechanistic pattern exists toward which life is 
heading, but has the question been taken up of whether life is heading 
away from mechanistic patterns?...This would explain why patterns of 
life do not change solely in accord with causative "mechanisms" or 
"programs" or blind operations of physical laws. They do not just 
change valuelessly. They change in ways that evade, override and 
circumvent these laws. The explanation of life as a "migration of 
static patterns toward Dynamic Quality" not only fitted the known facts 
of evolution, it allowed new ways of interpreting them. Biological 
evolution can be seen as a process by which weak Dynamic forces at a 
subatomic level discover stratagems for overcoming huge static 
inorganic forces at a superatomic level. They do this by selecting 
superatomic mechanisms in which a number of options are so evenly 
balanced that a weak Dynamic force can tip the balance one way or 
another...Certainly there's no hint of any miraculous powers waiting to 
spring chemistry professors upon a lifeless planet."

Best,
Steve