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PanAtheist · 08-24-2006, 04:15 PM

Darwin ended the usefulness of the term "natural" (in its contrast with "artificial", which is how he introduced the phrase!).
As a result of Darwin's discoveries, everything became known to be natural!

And while selection has an effect on which organisms survive and breed (eg. prey selection, and mate selection) it is only one factor among many that brings about differential survival of different genelines.

It is recklessly wrong to use "natural selection".
Who gives a fuck that Darwin used the term!
Freethinkers move on!

To call the whole deal of differential survival "selection" wrongly implies that there is always a selector, and this is insane in the current climate, because it feeds ID.

It's bad, it's stupid, and it's wrong, so it just has to go! :D

08-24-2006, 04:15 PM	#20
PanAtheist Obsessed Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: England Posts: 2,017	Darwin ended the usefulness of the term "natural" (in its contrast with "artificial", which is how he introduced the phrase!). As a result of Darwin's discoveries, everything became known to be natural! And while selection has an effect on which organisms survive and breed (eg. prey selection, and mate selection) it is only one factor among many that brings about differential survival of different genelines. It is recklessly wrong to use "natural selection". Who gives a fuck that Darwin used the term! Freethinkers move on! To call the whole deal of differential survival "selection" wrongly implies that there is always a selector, and this is insane in the current climate, because it feeds ID. It's bad, it's stupid, and it's wrong, so it just has to go! :D Healthy genes act as team-players. They are teamish! Their winning plays are salvations of an aliveness of which they are a part. Only a fraction of genes are selfish/parasitic (and they parasitize teams).