>
>> Stop right there. Try and reproduce evolution. Have I just
>> misrepresented anything?
>>
>
> Ever seen a seedless watermelon?
Methinks you and Mr. Marder are mixing up genetics and evolution. Sure,
genetics can prove some facets of evolution. However, the entire process
is beyond scientific reproduction. You cannot scientifically prove, in
reproducible fashion, that I evolved from an ape, let alone primordial
ooze. That's why they call it a theory.
(At best yours and Mr Marder's examples seem like a good argument for
intelligent design: humans are intelligent, and they are designing the
genetic experiments)
Since evolution cannot be reproduced in its entirety, one's belief in it
seems on a par with one's religious beliefs -- and evolutionists typically
react as though dearly held religious beliefs have been challenged
whenever anybody points out that some facet of their theory might be
flawed. They go ape-wire (pun intended ;).
This is exactly the kind of pseudo-academic behavior Phaedrus railed
against at the University of Chicago. Phaedrus/Pirsig seems open to
challenging everything. There is, however, one thing that to me seems
beyond challenge: individual experience (e.g. one's religious
beliefs/experiences).
I am no philosopher, but I'm guessing my last statement puts me in one
school or another of philisophic thought (I'd be interested to know which)
George
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