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Can you provide an example of how this rather facile assertion leads to any insight into biology? For example, how does it follow in a coherent fashion that the
by Gatsky 10y ago
Can you provide an example of how this rather facile assertion leads to any insight into biology? For example, how does it follow in a coherent fashion that the chemical properties of DNA lead to Mozart, or a lady bug? In short, how does chemistry explain either the origin, function or future trajectories of any of the utterly amazing biological entities that exist today?
- kenbellows 10y agoI mean... evolution explains the complexity of things, and evolution certainly has a foundation in the chemistry of DNA. Or are you asking why we have the particular configuration of biological entities we have instead of a different one?
- Gatsky 10y agoWell what does it mean to say that Biology is applied Chemistry? To me it says 2 things. 1 - That there is no 'new' knowledge in biology. 2 - The important aspects of biology can be reduced easily to applied chemistry. Evolution contradicts this, because it is a genuinely new idea. Some may say it is the ONLY new idea in biology, but that's good enough. It's often quoted here that "Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." You could extend this to "Biological science is no more about chemistry..."