[MD] Dawkins supports the MOQ

[David M]

selection suggests that the best quality forms
can be retained, but DQ has to underlie the
creation of all this unexplained variety.

DM


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From: "Platt Holden" <pholden at sc.rr.com>
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Subject: [MD] Dawkins supports the MOQ


> Hi All:
>
> In a recent interview biologist Richard Dawkins provided the following
> capsule description of evolution:
>
> "Natural selection is a guided process, guided not by any higher power,
> but simply by which genes survive and which genes don't survive. That's a
> non-random process. The animals that are best at whatever they do -- 
> hunting, flying fishing, swimming, digging -- whatever the species does,
> the individuals that are best at it are the ones that pass on the genes.
> It's because of this non-random process that lions are good at hunting,
> antelopes so good at running away from lions, and fish are so good at
> swimming."
>
> http://beliefnet.com/story/178/story_17889.html
>
> In this quote I especially noted "guided process," "survive," "best" and
> "good" -- all strongly reminiscent of the MOQ.
>
> But, as usual for evolutionary theorists, there's no attempt on Dawkin's
> part to answer the Pirsig's question: "Why do the fittest survive? What's
> the motive?" (The lack of scientific curiosity when it comes to questions
> like this baffles me since scientists loudly claim that they are dedicated
> to uncovering the "truth" about what causes this or that to occur.)
>
> Agreeing with the "guided process" that Dawkins attributes to evolution,
> Pirsig takes it one step further to answer the question,  "Why do the
> fittest survive?"
>
> "The patterns of life are constantly evolving in response to something
> 'better' than that which these laws have to offer." (Lila, 11--referring
> to the laws of physics.)
>
> "Response to something better" Evolution in a nutshell.
>
> Best,
> Platt
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