RE: Evil Atheists
September 20, 2011 at 2:09 pm
(This post was last modified: September 20, 2011 at 2:12 pm by Statler Waldorf.)
(September 20, 2011 at 2:05 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: But overall evolution is the most plausible explanation for social behaviour as evolution has a good track record in this area.
Sorry, I can’t let you get away with this statement since it is utterly meaningless. How do you determine what is more plausible? What are your probability denominator and numerator values?
(September 20, 2011 at 2:08 pm)Shell B Wrote: He didn't say that animal instincts were there before animals began evolving. Why are you implying such when it isn't even hinted at in his post?
Actually he did, he said that animals that failed to act within their instincts died out, implying that those that did survive acted within their instincts and were thus preserved by natural selection. So in his scenario natural selection didn’t produce instincts (despite his claim to the contrary on the last page) it only preserved them.