And Williams asserts that it can't, without any evidence beyond analogy to nonbiological objects. That's one of the big issues I have with the article.
I’ve not read Polanyi’s paper- so I don’t know if htis is true, or if Polanyi did at soem point admit htis, only to later say differently?
The paper is here. I don't see anywhere he says it's impossible. He does say, "It appears, then, that DNA evokes the ontogenesis of higher levels, rather than determining these levels. And it would follow that the emergence of the kind of hierarchy I have defined here can be only evoked, and not determined, by atomic or molecular accidents. However, this question cannot be argued here." He doesn't address how this ability to evoke might come about.
[[And Williams asserts that it can’t, without any evidence beyond analogy to nonbiological objects.]]
As I said awhile ago, I wish that there were a part 3 with more evidnec,e however, it isn’t a problem that htere is a lack of evidnece IF soemthing being proposed is reasonable beyond a reasonable doubt. After all, we’re talking abotu somethign that has only just a few issues that rely on reasonable analogies, whereas Macroevltuion has a great many issues that rely on unreasonable assumptions and analogies.