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grufty jim
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Re: God V Science (again)
Sep 17, 2008, 15:20
nigelswift wrote:
Don't condemn them Dave. They are merely conforming with Darwin's predictions, ensuring their ways prevail and therefore Tribe Fundi survives! If the bombs drop we'll all go Fundi in the ruins - if we want to survive, that is. Evolution moves in mysterious ways but it always throws up nasty bastards as winners. Ironic really, when the Fundis believe God's plan is the precise opposite!


That's not even close to being true, nigelswift. It's based on thinking that's at least 50 years out of date. Gregory Bateson (my current intellectual hero :) points out that in fact the basic unit of survival is not the organism (or even the gene) but is in fact "organism in environment" and that when viewed through that lens it's clear that cooperative ecosystems tend to be far better at adapting to adverse change than competitive ones.

In reality evolution has many many facets, and to reduce it to a single slogan; "survival of the fittest" or "always throws up nasty bastards as winners" isn't merely failing to see the whole picture, but is in fact quite wrong.
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