The Search for the Origin of Life: Some Remarks About the Emergence of Biological Structures

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  • Mirko Di Bernardo
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In the chapter “Religious Opinions” of his Autobiography, Darwin sustains that, after the law of natural selection has been discovered, the old argument about a “design” of nature as written by Paley falls apart, the same argument which he believed to be decisive in the past. So, in accordance with Darwin, we can no longer argue, for example, that the perfect hinge of a bivalve shell must have been conceived by an intelligent being, like the hinge of a door by man:

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تاریخ انتشار 2017