From: ASpidle@aol.com
Date: Sat Feb 27 1999 - 09:37:10 MST
In a message dated 2/26/99 11:57:52 PM, Tim wrote:
<<The first is: "See, I told you this was a module of the mind"
The second I shouldn't really bother with given 1.
GO and buy a copy of Richard Dawkin's books (any will do. Extended phenotype
is heavy going. I still recommend "The Blind watch Maker".
If this wasn't a module which required you to believe in god, you would
rapidly learn that there has not only been enough time to get from blue
green algae to amoebas but all the way up to humans.
>>
Thanks Tim. Why don't you go and buy a copy of Stewart Kaufman's books (any
will do, I recomend "At Home in the Universe," even us Fearful Neanderthals
can understand it.)
Then you might see how there is no way to advance an adaptive walk on a random
(chaotic) fitness landscape. Only a correlated fitness landscape (ordered
perhaps by as yet unknown laws of complex systems) permits adaptive walks to
advance.
It seems to me that biology researchers (like my son) have extrapolated the
most gruesome meme (we are junk that luckily survived) from their seriously
flawed (scientifically, not theologically) theory that natural selection is
accidental.
Your fearful friend,
Adrian
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