To: b_sharp
The tautology is there as you intimated but should be removed by a revision of the definition. Perhaps someone should come up with a non-tautological definition of selection. Selection is a label given to an observation. It may appear tautological in popular science writing, but it is shorthand for an observation, not a logical argument.
276 posted on
10/14/2005 4:57:58 PM PDT by
js1138
(Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.)
To: js1138
"Selection is a label given to an observation. It may appear tautological in popular science writing, but it is shorthand for an observation, not a logical argument If you check my first response I said pretty much the same thing.
"It's a problem with the definition not the process."
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282 posted on
10/14/2005 5:32:40 PM PDT by
b_sharp
(Making a monkey of a creationist should be a natural goal.)
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