What is evolution?
Evolution, in organisms, is the process by which inherited traits change over time.
What is natural selection?
Natural selection is the non-random survival of randomly varying, hereditary mutations.
There are several essential points here.
First, it’s the mutations which vary randomly, not the survival. It’s quite easy to see that if the survival were [...]
Archive for August 12th, 2007
12 Aug
Evolution Basics
12 Aug
A Suggestion to the Anti-Establishment
Before you argue against something, make sure you actually know what it is you’re arguing against.
Here’s a helpful exercise. Before you start ranting about how evolution is just a ploy by the scientific hegemony, why don’t you go ahead and define evolution first? Define it the way scientists define it. If you can’t, then you’re [...]
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