Spontaneous, bottom-up self-organization: rah! Intentional top-down plans: boo! (The Evolution of Everything by Matt Ridley in 11 words)pic.twitter.com/ihuQMYu607
What things have "evolved"? Life, technology, culture, law, religion, government, money, the economy, our minds and personalities—everything
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True! But—it's easy to take this to mean that thinking hard can't lead to big leaps—the US Constitution, the iPhone, etc
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Two of the finest artifacts ever designed :)
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Plus maybe the universe and its natural laws, toohttp://bigthink.com/in-their-own-words/cosmological-natural-selection …
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Skyscrapers modern airplanes etc. top down and evo methods are largely complementary
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All things remain the same. It is simply man's Understanding that evolves. Until it settles once and for all on The Truth.
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