Re: Natural Selection


bimms@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> Kant wrote:
> > "Natural selection allows the successes, but 'rubs out' the failures. Thus,
> > selection creates complex order, without the need for a designing mind. All
> > of the fancy arguments about a number of improbabilities, having to be
> > swallowed at one gulp, are irrelevant. Selection makes the improbable,
> > actual."-*Michael Ruse, Darwinism
> >
> > http://evolution-facts.org/Ev-Crunch/c09.htm
>
> Natural selection is tautological. It basically means, "Whatever
> happens, happens."

That is not what Natural Selection means. However, I would suggest
that all truths, as they become accepted, are tautological. When they
are new, they need to be explained, as they become accepted, then it is
obvious, and over time language adopts itself to the idea so that it
becomes tautological.

It was, quite sometime ago, thought that living organisms were static.
It was observed that they in fact change. At that time, it was not
tautological to state that life changes over time. Now it is. Now,
after centuries of recognition of that fact, we see the need to change
over time as part of the definition of life.

> The real question is, WHAT CAUSES GENETIC VARIATION? If evolutionists
> can ever provide us with a testable mechanism for what causes genetic
> variation, we will finally have a real, testable scientifiic theory.

Since biologists have had an answer for that for approximately the last
century, I guess you are admitting that Evolution is a real testable
scientific theory.

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