Re: Why You May Never Comprehend Human Evolution


"Paul Crowley" <slkwuoiutiuytciuyik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Jim McGinn" <jimmcginn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> > > > > Uh, ever heard of a concept called adaptation?
>
>> > > > Explain the working of selection, generation
>> > > > by generation, under you theory. Tell us
>> > > > how some members of the population left
>> > > > more children and grandchildren than
>> > > > others -- and why.
>> >
>> > You either have no idea how selection
>> > works, OR you have neglected to build
>> > your evolutionary theory around it,
>> > OR both.
>>
>> Your a dimwit that think that since Darwin
>> primarily referred to individuals being the
>> unit of selection that, therefore, individual
>> selection is a scientific principle and group
>> selection is invalid. This indicates a
>> dogmatic interpretation of Darwin's words, an
>> ignorance of standard scientic methods, or both.
> [..]
>>
>> One of the problems with evolutionary theory is
>> the vast majority of simpleminded dolts like
>> yourself that can't comprehend group selective
>> scenarios.
>
> So explain its workings, generation by
> generation. Let's pick on one feature like,
> say, knees, or skin colour. There is
> (apparently) no individual selection. The
> knee-size or skin-colour of Population A
> might shift in one direction or the other at
> random. Ditto for Populations B, C, D . . . Z.
> But there is competition between these
> populations. So IF and when one population
> happens (by chance) to vary a significant
> amount from its neighbours (in terms of
> knee-size or skin-colour), it will benefit or
> suffer accordingly.
>
> Am I right so far?
>
>
> Paul.
>
>

Skin cancer. Vitamin deficiency disease.

Bad knees kill or render dependant in all groups only in the last few
generations has medicine been able to help.


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    ... There is a key problem in evolutionary theory. ... just so long as the organism manages to survive until it manages to ... This means that natural selection can provide useless and dangerous ... behaviours and traits that science has no need to explain: ...
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