RE: Perspectives on Evolution
September 28, 2017 at 9:01 pm
(This post was last modified: September 28, 2017 at 9:02 pm by bennyboy.)
(September 28, 2017 at 8:47 pm)Khemikal Wrote:(September 28, 2017 at 7:10 pm)bennyboy Wrote: Is it, though? Or is it a narrative about a hypothetical collection of genes?If we have a bucket...and in that bucket, we have water with bleach and some blue food coloring....and we call that our "Bucket Pool"......are you going to insist that the bucket pool isn't a thing? If we add red food coloring, are you going to insist that the bucket pool hasn't changed?
If the bucket pool was an indeterminate number of individual bodies of water, yes, I'd say it wasn't a thing. But it's not. That's an actually single collection of water molecules, not a conceptual one. If you said our conceptual bucket was "all those bodies of water with a P.H. of about 7.0" and you then went around adding acid or bases, then that might be a better parallel.
