Re: Ool - out at first base?

On Wed, 18 Dec 2024 17:17:38 +0000, Ernest Major
<{$to$}@meden.demon.co.uk> wrote:

On 18/12/2024 14:17, Martin Harran wrote:

It's a long time since I read "Climbing Mount Improbable so I'm not
sure in what context Dakins used probability but I'd be absolutely
certain that it wasn't to support the idea of divine intervention!

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I don't recall the content of "Climbing Mount Improbable" - I found it
one of Dawkins' more forgettable books - but I'm pretty certain it was
about the capability of variation and selection to achieve complex
organised systems through sequences of small changes.

"Climbing Mount Improbable" was Dawkins' effort to describe a
complicated scientific topic (evolutionary probability) to a general
non-science audience, to explain how some features are likely to
evolve while others are less so.  Perhaps the language he used to
reach his intended audience made it "forgettable" to those more expert
in the field.

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