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This is a report of a teaching course in a Buddhist monastery (a nunnery) in Bhutan, where I—as a member of the Midn and Life Institute directed by the Dalai Lama—have been invited to illustrate the main aspects of modern science in the field of the origin of life and evolution. The class was formed by ca. 60 nuns, and a good number of Buddhist Lamas and senior learned monks, including Khentsye Rimpoche’,...
It is well known by those concerned with the origin of life on Earth that Darwinian evolutionary theory has significant limitations. The most important of these, it is argued here, is a mismatch between the central dogma of natural selection and the competitive conditions associated not only with the emergence of life but also with its recovery from major extinction episodes. To resolve this problem,...
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