(January 30, 2015 at 11:14 pm)Heywood Wrote: Replication via reproduction is replication. I am not missing it.
That's nonsense. Not all offspring are replicas of their parents.
(January 30, 2015 at 11:14 pm)Heywood Wrote: You have given no reason why reproduction is a special case of replication to such a degree that it should be treated differently from other forms of replication.
You already gave that reason. You are insisting that the definition of evolution you're defending is different to that of biological evolution. Reproduction is the basis of biological evolution. Now, if you want to carry on arguing for your definition to be a form of evolution that's fine, but if you want to argue biological evolution you have to consider all of its definition, otherwise you're fighting a strawman. You cannot equate the two in the way you want.
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