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Peregrine Donating Member (712 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-04 12:51 AM
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4. Well you flunked science 101
Edited on Tue Feb-24-04 01:05 AM by Peregrine
And of course, Darwin's theory of evolution is just that -- a theory. Evolution itself is a fact -- but Darwin's idea of natural selection as the main mechanism of evolution is theory. He acknowledged that other mechanisms were at work -- sexual selection, for example. Later scientists have theorized mechanisms like symbiogenesis and punctuated equillibria.

It is apparent you have no idea what theory means.

Natural selection took basically two forms: organisms to survive their environment and organisms against each other.

And you have no idea what natural selection is. Natural selection is the increase in allel frequency in a population due to successful reproduction. It doesn't have two forms, the only thing important is for an organism to survive to reproduce.

Darwinism does not support the right, left, up, or down. It's political use is in error. Darwinism is a science and apolitical. All it does is provide an explanation of what can be observed in nature. In short it is materialistic.
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