The Information In Dna Could No More

The Amount Of Knowledge Which We Can Justify From Evidence Directly Available To Us Can Never Be Large. The Overwhelming Proportion Of Our Factual Beliefs Continue Therefore To Be Held At Second Hand Through Trusting Others, And In The Great Majority Of Cases Our Trust Is Placed In The Authority Of Comparatively Few People Of Widely Acknowledged Standing.

But Even Physics Cannot Be Defined From An Atomic Topography.

We Could Not, For Example, Arrive At A Principle Like That Of Entropy Without Introducing Some Additional Principle, Such As Randomness, To This Topography.

To Try To Reform All The Power Structures At Once Would Leave Us With No Power Structure To Use In Our Project. In Any Case, We Will Be Able To See That Absolute Moral Renewal Could Be Attempted Only By An Absolute Power And That A Tyrannous Force Such As This Must Destroy The Whole Moral Life Of Man, Not Renew It.

And The Actual Achievements Of Biology Are Explanations In Terms Of Mechanisms Founded On Physics And Chemistry, Which Is Not The Same Thing As Explanations In Terms Of Physics And Chemistry.