Category: Consciousness and Evolution

After fifty years of broken biotech promises, we need a dose of reality.  I was working in the garden yesterday and cleared a few noxious weeds. Tiny stumps of would be trees like wooly nightshade which we cut down to the ground a month ago had sprouted anew and I wondered at the persistence of nature. Those tiny stumps of returning life illustrated one of the great marvels of natural law—the whole is contained in every part. Look at any seed, it contains the whole tree but you can't see the...