Science vs. Religion: (Chapter 4) (Humans)

by David Turell , Saturday, July 09, 2011, 15:05 (4885 days ago) @ xeno6696

However I keep returning to the point that overall as a process, we haven't observed an evolutionary race happen without some kind of selection pressure... maybe you're going to deal with that somewhere in the book, but to me thus far, I don't see a way to avoid stimulus->response, which to me is truly the underlying mechanism for evolution.-I'm sure it is your training, but I've always thought of natural selection as part of a passive mechanism, and I haven't changed my mind, even though you have argued for it as more than passive. NS only deals with what 'might' be presented to it; there is ino way around that concept. Can an organism survive an environmental mileau alteration. On the other hand environmental stress, we now know, allows organisms to create their own changes. And only then does NS have a role in this circumstance.