From: Scott Roberts (jse885@earthlink.net)
Date: Fri Oct 15 2004 - 15:06:17 BST
Ian,
> Natural selection - yes.
> Soleley by chance - not exclusively since humans started agriculture and
> domestication, not to mention any intelligent life started communcation
and
> forms of inter-genereation memory other tha DNA.
>
> I understand evolution, what I didn't understand was that I'd made any
> specific mechanistic point about it.
As I said, the only reason I can think of to assume "solely by chance" in
biological evolution is to maintain theoretical reducibility of the
biological to Newtonian physics, which is what I mean by mechanistic. If
one isn't interested in maintaining such reducibility, why not be agnostic
on the question?
> As I've said I'm bored with having to constantly debate it against
believers
> in purposeful gods, can we move beyond the bio-level - please.
I'm not a believer in purposeful gods or in God. I am merely convinced on
philosophical grounds that Darwinism (meaning that biological evolution can
be explained solely through chance and natural selection) is materialist
dogma, not science, so I see no reason for Darwinism other than to maintain
a belief in materialism.
- Scott
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