Pangloss enseignait la métaphysico-théologo-cosmolonigologie. Il prouvait admirablement qu'il n'y a point d'effet sans cause, et que, dans ce meilleur des mondes possibles, le château de monseigneur le baron était le plus beau des châteaux et madame la meilleure des baronnes possibles.

- Voltaire

Although many argue against evolution by saying that life is too complex to have simply evolved (the watch-maker analogy) and that evolution as an explanation lacks the elegance of creationism, I have never found it persuasive.

It has always seemed to me that the more we learn about this world and its byzantine complexity, it is far too complex to have been created by a single h...

Pangloss enseignait la métaphysico-théologo-cosmolonigologie. Il prouvait admirablement qu'il n'y a point d'effet sans cause, et que, dans ce meilleur des mondes possibles, le château de monseigneur le baron était le plus beau des châteaux et madame la meilleure des baronnes possibles.

- Voltaire

Although many argue against evolution by saying that life is too complex to have simply evolved (the watch-maker analogy) and that evolution as an explanation lacks the elegance of creationism, I have never found it persuasive.

It has always seemed to me that the more we learn about this world and its byzantine complexity, it is far too complex to have been created by a single hand. And yet, that complexity, that chorus of creative factors, all naturally coming into harmony over millions of years, is far more elegant than any simplistic theory of creation that begins and ends with an all-powerful God.

What an elegant illustration of this fascinating inter-connectedness! Could we not say that evolution itself is art?

Although Voltaire may have said it in jest, it does seem that in Nature, tout est pour le mieux dans le meilleur des mondes possibles - All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.