Re: Evolution on earth: directional and progressive?

John wrote:

Now in a similar vaine I want to know who has formally established
that "...evolution remembers good ones and discards bad ones".

Darwin should probably get credit for this observation.

From your quote it is clear that you define Evolution as some sort of
force with a mind all of its own.

No, no. When I say "evolution remembers" that is shorthand for
the germ line of organisms with the adaptations in question wind up
being preserved better than that of those that lacked them.

I'm not literally treating evolution as some kind of bearded old man
remembering certain things. That would be silly.
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