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Darwin’s work with physical evidence resulted in the natural selection theory, the driving force in the evolution of all species. “Intelligent design” advocates argue, with the support of many scientists, that some form of intelligence must have deliberately engineered all organic systems. But what underlies natural selection and intelligent design has not been discussed by their respective leaders and authors. Modern microbiologists’ starting point and related assumptions are about the cell or the gene, implying that natural selection just happened, somewhere along the way with precursors of cells. The intelligent design group’s belief is in the existence of a superior being by whom all natural things are directed to their end; in other words, their main assumption is a starting point with an intelligent designer. Author Georges Kassabgi has come up with new ideas – seeds, if you will – and tackles the perplexing problem recently highlighted as “delusions” and “new atheism” by bestsellers. The resulting framework of thought is presented in his book: Seeds for a conversation on the reality of human nature and behavior. Many an author has tried to reconcile our reality with the immeasurable, unknowable. Many leaders have claimed that they understand the reality underlying human nature and behavior. All have used reason or science – with or without religious belief. Hard stuff and
soft. Kassabgi’s book is a challenge as well as a complement to current
worldviews. It is for the open-minded person interested in expanding the
ongoing philosophic debates. Kassabgi is an engineer who has done research in computer technology (he holds five U.S. patents), and has studied mathematics. He has worked in many countries as a business management consultant and coach. In recent years, he has steeped himself in the history of religions and atheism, in the works of Montaigne, Goethe, Leonardo da Vinci, Erasmus, Machiavelli, Darwin, Turgenev, Mark Twain, Alain, Stefan Zweig, Robert Frost, Douglas Hofstadter, Richard Dawkins, and many more. Included in the book (in support of the new framework of thought) are some of his poetry and cartoons – and a detective story.
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