rmwilliamsll
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show me a link that tells me how neodarwinism can survive without natural selection. I double DARE you.
i entered this fray to correct the error of:
hey beleive that biological change over time comes from one source -- selection
that job is done to my satisfaction.
now you offer a different challenge.
however,
i haven't the foggest idea of how a theory survives or doesn't survive, i'm not even sure that the metaphor of a living creature applies very well to ideas or scientific theories. especially something as big and complex as the TofE.
Nor do i have a good idea of what it means for a theory to require a particular principle(that it currently has) like the TofE appears to "require" selection. Logically require? entail? there doesn't seem to be an essentialness to the idea of NS to the TofE. NS is more a description of what is seen and as such will take on different forms and explanatory depth as time goes on. maybe in the future NS will be subsumed into another more complex, more extensive better term, i don't know.
so i really don't know how to go about starting to answer this idea. i'll have to leave it for someone who can see the necessary philosophic connections better than i can at this moment, but thank you for the offer.
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