REVIEW

Review ~ 32 ~ ‘Yes. But where do the red corpuscles with their haemoglobin come from?’ ‘They are made in the spleen.’ ‘That’s marvellous, Doctor. But tell me, how is it that the blood, the red corpuscles, the spleen, and the thousand other things are so organised into one coherent whole, work together so perfectly that I can breathe, run, speak, live?’ ‘Ah! That is nature.’ ‘Nature!’ ‘When I say ‘‘nature”, I mean the interplay of blind physical and chemical forces.’ ‘But, Doctor, why do these blind forces always act as if they were pursuing a definite end? How do they manage to coordinate their activities so as to produce a bird which flies, a fish which swims, and me…. who ask questions?’. ‘My dear friend, I a scientist, can tell you how these things happen. Do not ask me why they are like that.’