Whoa! Whoa! dhw take notice!!! (The limitations of science)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Friday, April 18, 2014, 03:59 (3873 days ago) @ dhw

MATT: I've said before that the "filter" is the most important part of the process. 
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> Actually, before you saw the error of your ways (nasty dig, but you've earned it!) you said that the filter WAS the process. And if you've made this statement before, may I plead with you not to make it again. How can the filter be THE most important part? What would be the point of a filter if there was nothing to be filtered? Every phase in the process is indispensable. In other words, evolution could not happen without life, reproduction, adaptation, innovation and NS. Time to move on?-3 years with no response... yikes... I probably seem awful...- What would be the point of a filter if there was nothing to be filtered?-That's a little "meta" but the short answer is that it is the *filter* that determines the outcome: What actually is, vs what could be.

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