Delphic Podcast by Michael R D James
Jul 18, 2026 · 15 min · 13 segments
Genetics is a science often appealed to as the cause of many phenomena which have more complex histories. In the transition of sea-life into marshland life and finally into land animals the major…
Michael R. D. JamesHostHe can suppose that the womb of Mother Earth as it first emerged, like a huge animal from its chaotic state, gave birth to a creature whose form displayed less finality, and that these again bore others which adapted themselves more perfectly to their native surroundings and their relation to each other, until this womb, becoming rigid and ossified, restricted its birth to definite species, incapable of further modification.
And the multiplicity of forms was fixed as it stood when the operation of that fruitful power had ceased.
Kant then, in the context of this discussion, explores the hypothesis of gene ratio univocal, which implies the generation of something organic from something else that is also organic, although within the class of organic beings, differing specifically from it.
It would be as if we supposed that certain water animals transformed themselves by degrees into marsh animals, and from these after some generations into land animals.
In the judgment of plain reason there is nothing a priori self-contradictory in this.
He can suppose that the womb of Mother Earth as it first emerged, like a huge animal from its chaotic state, gave birth to a creature whose form displayed less finality, and that these again bore others which adapted themselves more perfectly to their native surroundings and their relation to each other, until this womb, becoming rigid and ossified, restricted its birth to definite species, incapable of further modification.
And the multiplicity of forms was fixed as it stood when the operation of that fruitful power had ceased.
Kant then, in the context of this discussion, explores the hypothesis of gene ratio univocal, which implies the generation of something organic from something else that is also organic, although within the class of organic beings, differing specifically from it.
It would be as if we supposed that certain water animals transformed themselves by degrees into marsh animals, and from these after some generations into land animals.
In the judgment of plain reason there is nothing a priori self-contradictory in this.
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