The just-released book is Animal Algorithms. Author Eric Cassell’s areas of expertise include flight navigation systems:
How do blind mound-building termites know passive heating and cooling strategies that dazzle skilled human architects? What taught the honeybee its dance, or its hive mates how to read the complex message of the dance? How do monarch butterflies known to fly thousands of miles to a single mountainside in Mexico, to a place they’ve never been before?
The secret, according to author Eric Cassell: behavioral algorithms embedded in their tiny brains.
The Problem for Darwinists
But how did these embedded programs arise in the history of life? There’s the problem for evolutionists. “Specified complexity, irreducible complexity, and the Cambrian explosion are inexplicable from a Darwinian viewpoint,” comments Baylor University computer engineer and intelligent design theorist Robert J. Marks. “In this book, Cassell masterfully adds animal algorithms to the list.”
Several other specialists have praised the book, including an entomologist, a paleoentomologist, and a neurobiologist.
Jonathan Witt, “New Book, Animal Algorithms, Spells Fresh Trouble for Darwinism” at Evolution News and Science Today(November 1, 2021)
Another riff on the question of how intelligence arises from sheer randomness (of course, it doesn’t) but this time with animals.
The algorithms idea is certainly worth using as a model.
From the publisher at Amazon:
How do some birds, turtles, and insects possess navigational abilities that rival the best manmade navigational technologies? Who or what taught the honey bee its dance, or its hive mates how to read the complex message of the dance? How do blind mound-building termites master passive heating and cooling strategies that dazzle skilled human architects? In The Origin of Species Charles Darwin conceded that such instincts are “so wonderful” that the mystery of their origin would strike many “as a difficulty sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.” In Animal Algorithms, Eric Cassell surveys recent evidence and concludes that the difficulty remains, and indeed, is a far more potent challenge to evolutionary theory than Darwin imagined.
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