Re: Gaia's place in Evolutionary Biology
- From: "John Edser" <edser@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 14:35:30 -0500 (EST)
"gareth" garethcn2@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:-
> A premise is a proof for a conclusion, you have not offered any
> evidence - only the conclusion itself. All you have done is mentioned
> what has happened in the past and then said "...and Gaia did that". My
> challange is for you to describe an experiment that would proove Gaia
> doesn't exist.
JE:-
Well stated. Popper is only paid lip service around here.
Any entity that is just the sum of the fitness of its parts is NOT a
selectable entity (a valid selectee) but it may constitute a powerful
selective force (a selector). You will find that not even the professionals
that post here can adequately separate a selectee from a selector.
Regards,
John Edser
Independent Researcher
edser@xxxxxxxxxx
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