Darwinist ignorance and confusion (Introduction)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Sunday, June 13, 2010, 21:39 (5066 days ago) @ David Turell


> > I've thought about this for a few days, but I'm not sure I'm fully on board:
> > 
> > We agree that evolution requires these things:
> > 1. An organism capable of change
> > 2. A change must happen (by whatever mechanism we've discussed)
> > 3. Natural Selection must be applied to it. 
> > 
> > We already have discussed and agreed that 1 & 2 have three categories: Good changes, Neutral changes, and bad changes. Natural selection operates on both Good and bad, and ignores neutral. So when we're discussing speciation it seems clear that at this level it's a two step process, and in terms of speciation, step 3 is the most important.
> 
> I agree. Natural selection decides if a new species stays around, but the new species must contain adaptive mechanisms (epigenetic) that can move quickly against challenges..-Alright... um... I thought the question was "what is the most important part of evolution?" If we agree that NS is the step that makes the decision and has the largest weight in the process--I completely fail to see why even the title of this thread makes any sense?-Going back to the article you began this post with, we have a guy giving philosophical commentary on the original work "Origin of the Species." Combining the title of the thread, with the content of the article--when we have an agreement that natural selection is the most important part of speciation--I fail to see what, if any, controversy this raises.

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