A number of people have asked if we are going to do a print edition of Probability Zero. The answer is yes. We will put out both a hardcover and a Signed First Edition in leather. We already have French and German ebooks ready that will be released next week, and we’re talking to a Japanese publisher about an edition there as well.
Thanks to the ebook readers, we’ve cleaned up a few typos and version 003 should be up on Amazon this weekend, including a hilarious new quote for chapter 3 from the father of the Modern Synthesis that succinctly explains the heart of the fundamental flaw of the Neo-Darwinians. I told you biologists hated the math and refused to do it, but here it is right from the horse’s mouth:
Chapter 3: The Miseducation of the Evolutionist
I agree that the principles of genetics must be thoroughly explained, but there is no need for so much Mendelian arithmetic.
—Ernst Mayr, What Evolution Is: From Theory to Fact, (2002)
Well, Ernst, if you’d just done a little more Mendelian arithmetic, or even listened to Eden, Ulam, and Schützenberger back in 1966 when they told you in great detail about all the problems the math was obviously was going to pose for your pet theory, you wouldn’t have made such an all-time ass of yourself in the annals of science.
From theory to fact? More like from theory to farce.
It’s mildly amusing to observe that just one year after Mayr wrote that, the mapping of the human genome that provided empirical support for the Mendelian math he disdained would be completed.