RE: Conservatives have more self-control
January 30, 2018 at 10:26 pm
(This post was last modified: January 30, 2018 at 10:32 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(January 30, 2018 at 8:55 pm)Shell B Wrote: No one said it was "a function of species." I said, if I recall correctly, "evolution has a function." Not "evolution is a function."
(January 30, 2018 at 5:30 pm)Shell B Wrote: Evolution is evolution. It has the same function in every species.
I've added the emphasis.
(January 30, 2018 at 8:55 pm)Shell B Wrote: I never tried to limit your participation in the thread. I voiced my preference as it pertains to me. Again, I don't mind, as long as it doesn't turn into the typical circus, which always results in closed threads, which I'm quite sick of, to be honest.
All I did was draw a point about what evolution is, and is not -- for the wider audience. You expressed a preference for me not to reply to you, right? Well, I wasn't replying to you. I was contributing to the discussion. I wasn't even replying to you. I was replying to Alpha Male.
(January 30, 2018 at 7:24 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Exactly. "Function" implies teleology.
In evolution, there is none. Don't believe me, ask the trilobites. Or the T. Rex. Or the ...
(January 30, 2018 at 8:55 pm)Shell B Wrote: Again semantics. Also, still not relevant to the fact that you were arguing that I said "evolution is a function." Your argument wasn't that evolution has no function, which is Anomalocaris' argument, so your "exactly" doesn't make any sense.
Oh, another reply.
You did indeed say that evolution is a function of species -- see my above direct quote of you.
My argument, as I've said before, is that evolution is not a function of species. I was addressing something a little different in my reply to Chuck -- to wit, that folks who don't understand EbNS often apply teleology to the process when there is none. I thought that point needed to be limned.
