From: Scott Roberts (jse885@earthlink.net)
Date: Thu Oct 14 2004 - 19:10:54 BST
Ian,
> Sorry Scott, don't understand - what mechanistic point am I adding ?
> Ian
Earlier in the thread, I made clear that by "Darwinism" I meant the theory
that evolution is caused solely through chance and natural selection, as
propounded by Dawkins, Monod, etc. If you are using Darwinism in a
different way, for example, not being concerned with how change comes
about, but only focusing on natural selection, then you are using
"Darwinism" differently. Since you haven't stated that you are, I have
assumed that you meant "solely through chance and natural selection". That
theory was developed in order to fit evolution into a Newtonian, that is,
mechanistic universe: the belief that one doesn't need anything other than
classical physics as an ultimate explanation for evolution. (Chaos and
complexity theory are still mechanistic in this sense.)
- Scott
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Scott Roberts" <jse885@earthlink.net>
> To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 3:30 PM
> Subject: Re: MD On Faith - Improbability ?
>
>
> > Ian,
> >
> > .
> > > Why bother ?
> > > In order to have a means of understanding, explaining and predicting,
> and
> > > hopefully influencing outcomes.
> > > (I'm no defender of science or materialism, in the real world.)
> >
> > Why bother adding the mechanistic aspect to it, is what I mean.
Selection,
> > yes, is a help to understanding: those SQ that don't work well die out.
> But
> > chance, no, other than the sense that we don't know all that is involved
> in
> > producing new SQ.
> >
> > - Scott
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