[syndicate] \\ evo

[Yasir Husain]

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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim at panix.com>


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> 
> On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, Yasir Husain wrote:
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> > there is absolutely no guarantee that evelutioin is happening.
> > evidence is all statistical-historical+theory
> >
> not true. there have been studies of organisms living in heavy-
> metal 
> superfund sites and their adapatation, genetic and speciation.

i think you'll notice the seeming contradiction with the second line about evidence ...well, how else to support any theory in any discipline. i had something else is mind which is the uncertainty associated with it - hence 'no guarantee that..' . 

instead of upending evolution in favor of u know what, i was  provocatively loosely thinking of the explanation debate such as gould-dawkins in gould's favor  :)


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> > even if u take that to be conditionally acceptable (true*) u 
> have on 1 
> > hand open ended changes (progress, deterioration, no change) on 
> the 
> > other u have environmental factors which can affect things in 
> any no of 
> > ways
> 
> i don't see how this contradicts evolution.
> 

that was not the intention. it was to throw in some provocative notions ... 
i suppose i would defn be cautious about/against over-prescriptive/predictive explantions

> >
> > that leaves things more upto chance than anything to go on
> > making some nice patterns
> >
> why nice.
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> 

because of the sheer uncertainty involved

thx for pointing out those stale neurons in the attic