Biologist Elisabet Sahtouris left her teaching job to go live on a Greek island and re-think her life as a scientist. She tells Anne Strainchamps that while she dismisses the Biblical creationists,she thinks the standard story of evolution has some major problems. Her book is "Earthdance: Living Systems in Evolution."
I'm not exactly sure what I think of her ideas, but what Sahtouris has to say is very interesting. Here's an excerpt from a 2003 essay:
We have a new definition of life in biology in the last few decades called autopoesis which means that a living entity is onethat continually creates itself. This is very unlike a machine which is created from the outside by an inventor, given its rulesof operation, and usually in a hierarchic arrangement and has tobe reinvented to have generations of technology rather than being able to reinvent itself in an evolutionary trajectory.
On her website, you can download a copy of her book for free. Or you can watch her on YouTube.
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