(July 7, 2016 at 9:27 am)Little Rik Wrote:(July 6, 2016 at 10:59 am)Crossless1 Wrote: Evolution (biological evolution) has nothing whatsoever to do with progress; it's about fitness and reproductive advantage and the changes in gene frequency over a population -- nothing more.
Change (cultural, technological, etc.) can be about progress but not necessarily. Your insistence on misusing the word 'evolution' and your penchant for idiotic analogies is not my problem, moron. Fuck off.
Double imbecile.
Let us see the real meaning of evolution.
1) the gradual development of something.
"the forms of written languages undergo constant evolution"
synonyms: development, advancement, growth, rise, progress, progression, expansion, extension, unfolding; transformation, adaptation, modification, revision, reworking, reconstruction, recasting, change;
2) Evolution - definition of evolution by The Free Dictionary
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/evolution
a. A gradual process in which something changes into a different and usually more complex or better form
https://www.google.com.au/webhp?sourceid...on+meaning
Biological changes have really nothing to do with evolution.
A change can also be for the worse so the word evolution for a change is definitively misplaced.
Evolution equal to progress.
If you don't like too bad.
Try for once to get your shit together, Rik. I entered this thread after your idiotic claim that evolution didn't pertain to populations. In that context the discussion was about biological evolution, and that is the context in which my remarks were germane. Yes, 'evolution' has other applications, just as 'theory' outside a scientific context does, but that's not what I was addressing and you know it. So stick your dictionary far enough up your ass that you can read it with your third eye (that would be the brown one, in case you're confused).