Is "discourse of the mind" evidence of design?

[Angrboda]

I love it when we disagree. In what way does selection lead to proof or disproof, acceptance or rejection - and don't all of these terms imply something we don't see in the process to begin with? I don't mind being pedantic when it comes to understanding evolutionary processes. I'd wear that as a badge of pride, so thanks, I suppose. Like I asked Sho'nuff, are we talking biology or writing a poem?

Darwin himself drew the same analogy. You're claiming that it literally has to be a test in order for my point about the order of the operators to remain valid. It doesn't. It can be analogous to a test and the point holds mutatis mutandis.

Natural selection is the gradual process by which biological traits become either more or less common in a population as a function of the effect of inherited traits on the differential reproductive success of organisms interacting with their environment. It is a key mechanism of evolution. The term "natural selection" was popularized by Charles Darwin who intended it to be compared with artificial selection, now more commonly referred to as selective breeding.