RE: Detecting design or intent in nature
January 25, 2015 at 4:24 pm
(This post was last modified: January 25, 2015 at 4:38 pm by Heywood.)
(January 25, 2015 at 10:22 am)Chas Wrote: Evolution requires the replication of replicators. Your example fails.
This is just plain wrong. How the population is replicated is inconsequential. Instead of mothers pushing out babies, they could be made in a factory and the stork could be delivering them. All that matters is the future babies be near copies of past babies and any changes which lower fitness are selected against. For instance, Only babies which survive to the age of reproduction will be copied.
You simply fail to understand how evolution works.