View Single Post
 
Old April 26th, 2005, 08:11 PM
Lizzie Pickard Lizzie Pickard is offline
Member
 
Join Date: Apr 2005
Posts: 15
Default Natural Selection

Perhaps loving children might be counted as a high art form, but merely creating them, as you suggested, certainly couldn't. Any old selfish, thoughtless jerk can and does do that, every day, every second. It's yet another tragedy of planet earth.

If you are relating natural selection to mere "natural forces" and claiming it is all a big "just so" story, then you're not much different from an "Intelligent Design" so-called "expert". Ie. you haven't educated yourself on that which you are discussing, and apparently you don't really have any interest in sincere debate. It seems as though you have bones to pick, ideologies to uphold,and arguments regarding how you and your kind are better than others, and you are misusing evolutionary psychology as a vehicle to do so. I had wanted to discuss science.


P.S. Natural selection, which you claimed is "not clearly defined" is in fact quite clearly and specifically defined by biologists as: "differential reproductive success of genotypes"


Here's more, from an excellent introduction to evolutionary biology: http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-...o-biology.html


Quote:
Common Misconceptions about Selection

"Selection is not a force in the sense that gravity or the strong nuclear force is. However, for the sake of brevity, biologists sometimes refer to it that way. This often leads to some confusion when biologists speak of selection "pressures." This implies that the environment "pushes" a population to more adapted state. This is not the case..."
Reply With Quote