Re: Natural selection is a false term - says Darwin in Origin Species

On Oct 7, 2:24 pm, Iain <iain_inks...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Oct 6, 8:09 pm, backspace <sawireless2...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Oct 6, 8:01 pm, Iain <iain_inks...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Then he had no right to use the word *selection*
Let us suppose he chose a bad word.
Either way...
Darwin explicitly stated that he did not say "selection" to mean
"conscious choice".
Darwin, stated, explicitly, that he did not say "selection" to mean
"conscious choice".
In other words, Dawin specified, explicitly that he did not mean
"conscious choice".
So, with all this in mind, what the hell is your point?

That 1+1= 2 is an axiomatic statement - I can't prove it. In the same
way *selection* is a *choice*.

No. It's not an axiom.

It is your own (wrong) description of what the word "selection" means
in English.

Let's go through this again.

Darwin said -- *without* using the word "selection" -- that he did not
mean to imply that nature itself was conscious. There is no ambiguity
there. There is no room for debate.

So, Darwin said -- *without* using the word "selection" -- that he did
not mean to imply that nature itself was conscious.

So, Darwin said, explicitly, and without ambiguity, that he did not
mean to imply that nature itself was conscious.

And how can Darwin be "brainwashed"? That doesn't make sense.
He's the _originator_ of the idea.

You, on the other hand, are exhibiting bizarre post-hypnotic behaviour
-- like that stage hypnotists' trick in which a subject is told that
left is right and right is left. They are then asked to touch their
right arm. They just go numb. When asked to explain why, they
confidently use the most topsy-turvy logic imaginable.

~Iain

Cognitive dissonance can be rather strange to behold, yes? (Though
regular readers of this NG are fairly inoculated against it)

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