A theory isn't a 'popular opinion'It's a falsifiable system of interactions which has yet to be disproved. If a bonobo fossil turned up in the wrong strata, a lot of evolutionary biologists would look very sheepish(not because they evolved from them though), but it hasn't happened yet. Don't forget as well, that most beneficial mutations in a single generational leap are very very subtle. All the one's we've actually noticed in fruit flies are huge entirely unbeneficial mutations such as antennapaedia. Any beneficial mutations going on in the wild are going simply to slowly to be measured by scientists.
It's far better than believing everything that suits you out of some weird conglomeration of myths,
contradictory ethics and the plain bizarre. And if you believe that you got this answer straight from God, then I'm afraid to say you are delusional.
(It's far better than believing everything that suits you out of some weird conglomeration of myths,
contradictory ethics and the plain bizarre. And if you believe that you got this answer straight from God, then I'm afraid to say you are delusional.
PopePollo defloculating the soup of the surreal,
Thu 14 Jun 2007, 10:59,
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Just to say...I like this riposte the best. Nice and concise, and informative too. Thanks!
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Thu 14 Jun 2007, 11:21,
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ThanksI highly recommend "The Blind Watchmaker". Dawkins' is pretty crap at philosophy, but he is excellent at describing the evolutionary process.
Pfft sound of one hand fwapping.
(Pfft sound of one hand fwapping.
PopePollo defloculating the soup of the surreal,
Thu 14 Jun 2007, 11:41,
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