基因與創世紀

Genes and Genesis

蔡敬民(Jimmy Tsai)

《哲學與文化》 35卷6期 (2008/06) Pp. 89-95

https://doi.org/10.7065/MRPC.200806.0089

摘要

物種起源問題一直沒明確的答案，1850年代前後的「物競天擇」假說、親子代間有遺傳關係與物種內可有「突變」現象等的發現，被誇大解釋成物種間可有『演化』的相關性。1950年代後DNA結構的發現與2000年代前後的基因解碼，發現物種間存在有許多相同基因，被認為基因可能因重新排列而產生新物種。然而物種間的演化在多細胞生物中從來沒出現過，尤其人類的創新發明、在意歷史、計畫未來、宗教觀等特質更是與其他生物畫下無法由物質結構就可解釋的鴻溝。

關鍵字

演化論 ； 創造論 ； 物競天擇 ； 遺傳 ； 突變 ； 各從其類

並列摘要

There has been no clear answer to the problem of the origin of species. Around 1850, evolution from one species to another species was overstated due to the hypotheses of natural selection, inheritance between generations and micro-mutation within a species. The structure of DNA was discovered after 1950 and sequences of genes were described around the year 2000. It has been thought that the rearrangement of genes could lead to a new species due to the fact that many of the same genes are found among various species. However, the macro-mutation between species has never been observed in multi-cellular organisms. The characteristics of creativity, care of history, future plans and religiosity, etc. in humans when compared with all other species leads to an unexplainable deep gap from the viewpoint of material structures.

並列關鍵字

Evolution ； Creation ； Nature Selection ； Inheritance ； Mutation ； After His Kind

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