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To: js1138

Fitness is a form of teleology. The concept of Nature as well.

267 posted on 11/30/2005 9:21:29 AM PST by cornelis

To: cornelis

"Fitness is a form of teleology. The concept of Nature as well."

How so?

271 posted on 11/30/2005 9:26:32 AM PST by CarolinaGuitarman ("There is a grandeur in this view of life...")

To: cornelis

"Fitness is a form of teleology."

Huh? Biological fitness is survival probability to successful reproduction. How is that teleological?

272 posted on 11/30/2005 9:26:40 AM PST by Thatcherite (F--ked in the afterlife, bullying feminized androgenous automaton euro-weenie blackguard)

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