(March 13, 2012 at 6:22 pm)Minimalist Wrote:(March 12, 2012 at 2:40 pm)Tiberius Wrote: I've always understood "evolution by natural selection" as being evolution through non-intervention. So "evolution by artificial selection" is still evolution; it just has a 'non-natural' guide.
Hmm... but evolution by natural selection rewards traits which give an organism an enhanced survival capability for a given environment. Evolution by human tinkering rewards traits that humans think are pleasing....even if you end up with a fucked-up dog who couldn't survive a week with some human caring for it.
Quote:No, min, theologians and Rick santorum, like dog shit, are also natural.
Theologians and Santorum are products of a system which selects for uselessness rather than usefulness.
Well, whoever a system is fucked up by religion, it becomes usefulness to be useless.
