What you mention from Blatty is what I would finally like to determine. I see both claims of the impossibility of random evolution, and also read dismissals of those assertions, and I am uncertain of the science. The odds against life forming from chance are astronomically high, of course, and I suspect that things like meaningful cell differentiation are inconceivable without intervention, since the part cannot exist properly without the whole, as it were, and the whole (nervous system, circulatory system, whatever) is an articulated structure, not just a mass of cells. But I am not sure. To prove, once and for all, that it couldn't work by random mutation would be a big discovery.
I meant the second meaning of "mare's nest".
The drawings are not so bad, and some of the poetry is interesting, but the ideas are a tangle of allegories and half- baked mysticism, and I have never had the patience to go far with it.
The book does sound interesting. Who knows, when I finish a few other things..... |
