Happy Darwin Day! Here Is The Biology of the Baroque, Featuring Michael Denton

There is an intuition that many people have. Looking at the extravagant beauty of nature, and that of life in particular, it seems impossible to account for that extravagance in the utilitarian terms of materialism and Darwinism. Tell us please, what adaptive survival value is there in the sublime?

Ann Gauger made this point just yesterday with reference to a feature of human anatomy that is essential to beauty, unique to humans, yet seemingly of no practical purpose. It's right there below...