Natural Selection is Deterministic?
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Q- In what way is natural selection deterministic?
A- Whatever survives to reproduce determines what the next generation will be
Q- What survives to reproduce?
A- Whatever is good enough and/ or lucky enough to do so
Q- What about the fittest?
A- The fittest, wrt biology, are the individuals who leave behind the most offspring, you know those surviving reproducers
Q- So where does determinism come in?
A- Whatever surivives to reproduce is determined by a number of factors
Q- That's it?
A- Apparently
Q- And this is what gave rise to the diversity of life?
A- Yup, it's settled science
Q- What is "settled science"?
A- It's when "mainstream" scientists don't know what the fuck is going on and they are pretty sure no one ever will, so they make something up
Q- In what way is natural selection deterministic?
A- Whatever survives to reproduce determines what the next generation will be
Q- What survives to reproduce?
A- Whatever is good enough and/ or lucky enough to do so
Q- What about the fittest?
A- The fittest, wrt biology, are the individuals who leave behind the most offspring, you know those surviving reproducers
Q- So where does determinism come in?
A- Whatever surivives to reproduce is determined by a number of factors
Q- That's it?
A- Apparently
Q- And this is what gave rise to the diversity of life?
A- Yup, it's settled science
Q- What is "settled science"?
A- It's when "mainstream" scientists don't know what the fuck is going on and they are pretty sure no one ever will, so they make something up
posted by Joe G @ 9:30 AM
6 Comments:
At 3:09 AM,
Rich Hughes said…
“Wind back the tape of life to the early days of the Burgess Shale; let it play again from an identical starting point, and the chance becomes vanishingly small that anything like human intelligence would grace the replay.” - Stephen Jay Gould
At 8:56 AM,
Joe G said…
Thank you for proving my point.
At 12:32 PM,
Rich Hughes said…
What was your point?
At 4:10 PM,
Joe G said…
That evoTARDs are clueless...
At 5:08 PM,
Rich Hughes said…
Yeah, you might want to look up "deterministic" and "stochastic".
At 5:30 PM,
Joe G said…
Yeah, maybe, someday, you may actually make a case instead of spewing nonsense
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