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- From: swf@tools3teradata.com (Stan Friesen)
- Newsgroups: talk.origins
- Subject: Re: cotera skims Futuyma
- Message-ID: <1673@tdat.teradata.COM>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 17:35:50 GMT
- References: <1992Dec10.084953.1@woods.ulowell.edu> <105318@bu.edu>
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- In article <105318@bu.edu>, colby@bu-bio.bu.edu (Chris Colby) writes:
- |> Evolution is fairly simple to understand once you
- |> get a few ideas straight in your head (viewing populations as
- |> collections of individuals with different alleles is key, ...
-
- Yep, This *one* idea is almost the whole ball of wax - as Ernst Mayr points out
- *this* was Darwin's truly major breakthrough. It was what made the rest of his
- theory possible, and what made it so revolutionary.
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- |> Good, in other words Futuyma isn't making bald assertions. He is
- |> presenting the evidence and explaining how it has been interpreted.
- |> Are you complementing him on his writing style or don't you under-
- |> stand what "inferred" means?
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- Chuckle. Actually I think he is still laboring under the misapprehension that
- science is supposed to *prove* things! So he simply doesn't understand the
- appropriate use of qualifiers in discussing scientific issues.
-
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