RE: Science in Hollywood: I Origins (2014)
Very insightful post as always @irime !
I never fully understood the argument that is saying that evolutionary theory is flawed because no one can explain how the eye could have evolved into such a complex organ.
Yet, somehow it is established that the probably most complex animal organ - the human brain - evolved from a few cells specialized in stimulus recognition and propagation. The same goes for the eye: after some evolutionary grinding and mingling there was a dedicated cell type that could produce a protein that reacts to photons by changing the state of its structure or catalyzing a reaction.
Only because we do not understand how the eye exactly evolved step by step, yet, doesn't mean we won't so in the future.
Before Darwin, the idea that humans might have descended from some monkeys, was unheard of...
Also the concept of redundancy helps to understand how all these crazy functions have arisen. I used to think that there was like, one mutation that was conductive to conferring an organism with a new ability, however it has been shown that protein domains, for example, can have similar functions while being vastly different in their sequence.
BTW, is it just me or is Steemit now finally working properly?
Since the change of the interface it seems to be more stable.