Re: Why did color vision evolve?
- From: "Gil Lawton" <gillawton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:21:18 -0500 (EST)
Whatever else you read, I would like to invite you to read my message titled
"NSAdvantagism."
It might open your eyes to something you had never thought about; and it
might not.
Basically, it is an attempt by this old layman to articulate what appears to
him to be equivalent to what was meant to be implied by Eugene Ionesco, in
his classic play "The Rhinocerous" -- namely that there are some things in
this world that are so clear and present and large and right in front of our
noses that even some very intelligent people do not see them.
My stance is that, while Natural Selection does, indeed, seem to occur,
contemporary science is only just now in the beginning stages of getting to
know enough to have any idea HOW. But, despite this, a debate rages among
many who
have strongly held, deeply entrenched, highly adamanet opinions which I
think of as the LEGEND of Natural Selection.
Legends are NOT about things that never happened. They are the folk wisdom
and the over-simplified and, often false, analyses that are bought into not
only by the naive public but even by "politically correct thinking"
academics and experts.
Perhaps H. L. Mencken acknowledged that such a phenomenon occurs in regard
to many things, when he said (and I am sure I am getting the idea right, but
might get a word wrong in trying to quote him):
"For every complex thing in this world there is an explanation that is
clear, and simple, and wrong."
But... judge for yourself, after reading my message titled "NSAdvantagism."
At worst, you might get a laugh out of it.
(:>)
g
.
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