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Politics : Evolution

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To: TigerPaw who wrote (788)	9/18/1999 12:18:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (4) of 69300

Yes, but you are conveniently forgetting the improper extension of scientific patterns into a world-view. A century ago it was Vitalism. Two centuries ago it was the Clockwork Universe. Now it is Evolutionism (among others). (By this I mean the belief that we are strictly meat come from mud, with no God involved.) It is worth considering that this is a faith just as any of the theisms is. Evolution is a well-established feature of current biology. Natural selection is a cardinal theory used to describe how evolution works. There are other, more speculative theories attached thereto, like the Selfish Gene concept or Punctuated Equilibrium. In a sense ... the cooler the theories get, the more speculative they are. I'd give my neighbor's left nut to know what the philosophical/empirical consensus will be like one, then two centuries from now. (Barring a postnuclear feudal society, lol)

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