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To: donh
I'm removing my hands from the counter and slowly walking away, slowly shaking my head and repeating "natural selection doesn't cause genetic change."

Well, it's true. Genetic changes are caused by cosmic rays, or toxins, or whatever else. Natural selection decides whether those changes stay or go. (usually go, at least 99.9% of the time)

1,216 posted on 09/26/2005 3:00:00 PM PDT by inquest (FTAA delenda est)
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To: inquest
Well, it's true. Genetic changes are caused by cosmic rays,

Darwinian natural selection, which I was under the impression we were discussing, proposes a paradigm that consists of two important behaviors--variation, and selection. If you keep over-applying occam's razor to every standard definition of the theories we are discussing, you are going to cut yourself into epistemological shreds.

1,218 posted on 09/26/2005 3:05:16 PM PDT by donh
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