Table of Contents Preface vii Chapter 1 Evolution as a Scientific Pseudofact 1 The Meaning of Evolution 1 General Notes 2 Evolution Without Know-how 4 Two Scientific Difficulties in Evolutionary Theory 5 Chapter 2 Biogenes is by Chance? Part I 9 The Formation of the Building Blocks of Life The Formation of the Building Blocks From a Chemical 9 Point of View Spontaneous Biogenesis in Primeval Oceans? 13 Properties of the Building Blocks of Life: The Amino Acids 14 And Their Chirality Manfred Eigen's Explanation of the Origin of the 23 Chirality Required by Biogenesis Further Synthetical Difficulties 31 Chapter 3 Biogenes is by Chance? Part II 33 Linkage of the Building Blocks The Standard Scheme 33 The Standard Scheme is Somewhat Modified 34 The Standard Scheme is Further Modified 35 The Different Types of Proteins 38 Autoorganization 43 Several Important Prerequisites and Consequences 44 The Preprogramming of Proteins 45 Proposition: The Paper Writes the Book 47 A Modern Point of View 48 The Sound Lens in Dolphins 50 Chapter 4 The Genesis of Biological Information 53 The Problem of Information in Archebiopoesis 53 The Problem of Transformism and Its Financing With 60 New Information Entropy and Information 62 Chapter 5 Programmed by Chance? 67 Chance as a Programming Agent 67 The Nature of the Cell's Program 69 Manfred Eigen's Glass Beads 75 The Nature of Language 77 Language Conventions 81 Translation 87 Summary 89 Chapter 6 Time Spans and Dating Methods: 91 Their Relation to the Question of Intelligence and The Origin of Species Time Spans and Dating 91 Index Fossils 102 The C14 Dating 1"1ethod 109 Constancy of the C14 Concentration in the Atmosphere 112 The Influence of the Earth's Magnetic Field on C14 Synthesis 112 Some Consequences 118 Other Dating Methods 120 Summary 121 Chapter 7 Microevolution, Transformism, and Concepts 123 Are Mutations and Natural Selection Sufficient to 123 Account for Evolution? Survival of Those Organisms Producing the Greatest 127 Number of Offspring Stabalization of Species Boundaries 128 Missing Links Incapable of Survival 130 A Few Consequences 133 A Variant View: Machine and Concept 133 Chance and Machinery 136 Machinery at a Molecular Level 137 Source of Concepts and Ideas 141 Prospect 147 Appendix 149 The Seven Main Postulates of the Theory of Evolution 149 The Three Laws of Thermodynamics 150 Symmetry and Pairing of Biological Organs 151 Human Brain and Evolution 152 Optical Activity in Biological Macroevolution 154 New Finds in the Paluxy River Bed, Glen Rose, Texas, USA 160 Index 163
