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mk  ·  4056 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: An Open Letter to Evolutionary Anthropologist Cadell Last - Evolution News & Views

That's a very reasonable approach.

That said, what I found missing in his argument is that you suggested that if physical laws fail to predict the behavior, perhaps intelligence is involved; the phenomenon that he describes (the dynamics of millions of information-rich sequences of base pairs of nucleotides in DNA) can be predicted by physical laws, at least we have yet to find a place where they cannot.

It's a false analogy.