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Title: The Mystery of Physical Life by E.L. Grant Watson ISBN: 0-940262-53-3 Publisher: Lindisfarne Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)

Rating: 4
Summary: A valuable critique of mechanistic theories of nature.
Comment: E. L. Grant Watson has written some fascinating books. I had read his earlier book "Descent of Spirit" which was wonderfully well written with fluid poetical style and possessed both intimate personal experiences of the author in the wilds of northern Australia amongst the Aborigines but also had some very interesting facts regarding some symbiotic relationships between plants and animals and animals and animals. Assuming the current book to be an elaboration of his ideas in this regard I eagerly awaited its arrival. Unfortunately there was considerably less material than anticipated and far too many `flights of fancy' with little to back them up. There were some attempts at a fuller description in terms of the more solid ideas of Goethe (such as the use of the process of exact imaginative participation, unfortunately translated as exact imaginative fantasy, certainly not what Goethe had in mind) although one always felt the author did either not really understand these ideas or was not fully convinced of them and so remained in a kind of nebulous state surrounded by the ideas of other men in a hodge-podge conceptual jungle. There is of course no conclusions on offer or anything to get hold of BUT in his examples of the intricacies of the natural world, particularly the astonishing (to say the least) aspects involved in the `cooperation' between organisms, Grant-Watson brings forth a very important point in regards to the validity of a completely mechanistic evolutionary theory such as that of Neo-Darwinism. As such, this book is not to be dismissed and the salient points made as well as the writings of others, where mentioned, provide a valuable addition to the evaluation of a purely mechanistic theory of evolution.