On Feb 18, 2006, at 8:20 AM, Bob W wrote:
no it isn't. It's differential reproductive success due to inherited
variability.
That's just a more complicated way of saying survival of the
fittest. Using more syllables to say something doesn't make it more
profound.
The concept of 'devolving' is silly, and implies some sort of
progress towards something.
Huh? Howso? It simply implies that evolution is no longer working
because we are frustrating its basic mechanism.
This idea is not part of evolution, which is
blind.
Did I say it could see?
What you've mentioned is so-called Social Darwinism - a political
movement based on a warped understanding of biological evolution.
No, not what I was talking about at all. There is no politics in
what I said.
It has no
more connection to neo-Darwinian theory than the suicide bombers
have to
Islam, or the Irish terrorists to Christianity.
Seems to me that suicide bombers are connected to Islam, at least the
Islamic ones. They justify their lunacy by claiming inspiration from
Islam. Same for Irish terrorists.
Bob
