Inference and its role in NS (General)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Friday, January 21, 2011, 14:14 (4865 days ago) @ dhw

Dhw; -I am in agreement that natural selection is generally a passive process. However I think we both might be arguing over semantics. if we agree that natural selection is the filter--then we really only care about what the output of the filter is. -Input: organism
Output: organism that passed through natural selection.-When I learned biology, I learned that natural selection encompasses changing environments, organisms moving to new environments, and competition over resources or species.-So according to theory, organisms only undergo changes under stimuli to change.-What we call a horse now, we have 14 snapshots of its development. In what I learned, while natural selection is not the organism changing itself, its the conditions that put the organism into that situation--the cause. If we can agree on something here we can dive into Dawkins' mind regarding his inference (as best I can.)

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