Re: Article: Brain May Still Be Evolving, Studies Hint


"Tim Tyler" <tim@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> JoeSixPack <olegp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote or quoted:
>
>> I think it's shocking just how few actually do understand it. I think the
>> process has been mis-stated so many times that it has become a type of
>> "common knowledge" that evolution is following some paced, unknown
>> course,
>> taking us in some predetermined direction as though by intelligent
>> design.
>> Even authors of books who are trained in the sciences are guilty of
>> propagating this mythology.
>
> If aliens have gone through stages of having binocular vision and mobile
> phones and inventing genetic engineering, "mythology" may be a rather
> inappropriate term.


"Might be inappropriate." Since when have we been discussing this
hypothetical? What sort of point are you making, that aliens are proof that
mythology is real?

> Convergence looks like a powerful effect. It may not have *complete*
> control over the development of living organisms, but its effect
> looks powerful nontheless - so the idea of there being a "predetermined
> direction" to evolution may well be pretty-much correct.


Good golly, my surprise has been surpassed. I never expected to be
challenged from that point of view. Since when is convergence, "proof of
predetermined direction?" I seriously hope you are not a practicing
scientist.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Likewise, lack of an
explanation is not disproof that a reasonable explanation could some day
exist.


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