It might not seem so from the abstract, but the article below talks about a new
paradigm of biology based on communities and ecosystems rather than genes and
molecules.

Freeman Dyson has a 1 page review of the article cited below in the March 2005
issue of the "MIT Techonolgy Review" (p, 27). Dyson argues that once humans
dominated the earth and began modifying and controlling it, strict Darwinian
evolution ended and was replaced by cultural evolution. These articles are
interesting reads, and yet another nail in the coffins of the pro-raw
pseudoscience liars who claim cultural evolution does not exist, or is
Lamarckism. Those fraudulent "raw science experts" really do need to get to the
library more often.


Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews, June 2004, p. 173-186, Vol. 68, No.
2

A New Biology for a New Century
Carl R. Woese*

Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801

Biology today is at a crossroads. The molecular paradigm, which so successfully
guided the discipline throughout most of the 20th century, is no longer a
reliable guide. Its vision of biology now realized, the molecular paradigm has
run its course. Biology, therefore, has a choice to make, between the
comfortable path of continuing to follow molecular biology's lead or the more
invigorating one of seeking a new and inspiring vision of the living world, one
that addresses the major problems in biology that 20th century biology,
molecular biology, could not handle and, so, avoided. The former course, though
highly productive, is certain to turn biology into an engineering discipline.
The latter holds the promise of making biology an even more fundamental
science, one that, along with physics, probes and defines the nature of
reality. This is a choice between a biology that solely does society's bidding
and a biology that is society's teacher.

Tom Billings