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To: Alter Kaker

Selection is an proactive process, something designed, and not a result of something else. If anything, the word "Selected" is better, but still not adequate..

Pressures are not proactive in achieving a desired end, though an end is a result of those pressures.

This is common sense, but not common enough amongst darwinists..

>>Natural selection

A better term would be natural results, not selection.

Don't give character to the forces of nature which they do not have.


116 posted on 11/17/2005 1:43:11 PM PST by 1stFreedom (zx1)
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To: 1stFreedom
Selection is an proactive process, something designed, and not a result of something else.

Maybe in your world, but that's not how natural selection works. Sorry.

Pressures are not proactive in achieving a desired end

The only desired end is surviving to reproduce succesfully. Those individuals that survive pass on their DNA, those that don't, do not. There are no other "ends" in biology.

A better term would be natural results, not selection.

You can call it "Dorothy" for all I care, the underlying process remains the same.

131 posted on 11/17/2005 1:58:06 PM PST by Alter Kaker (Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one’s nose.-Heine)
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