RE: Richard Dawkin's big blunder
March 14, 2014 at 9:54 am
(This post was last modified: March 14, 2014 at 9:59 am by Heywood.)
(March 14, 2014 at 9:45 am)Esquilax Wrote: Evolution is guided in the same way that a river is guided by its banks. These are natural processes informing the shape of evolutions to come. Since nature has no sight, there is no sense in which natural selection- the real name for your "fitness paradigm,"- is not blind.
Yes evolution is guided in the same way that a river is guided by it banks. The path of river is not blind. If it was you would not be able to predict where its is going to go.
I use "fitness paradigm" instead of "natural selection" because there are types of evolution in which "natural selection" isn't a good description. Memetic evolution uses selection guided by intellect and using the term natural selection in a discussion about memetic evolution would be inaccurate. "Fitness Paradigm" is just a term I coined as a generic term for any kind of selection mechanism.