[MD] Oneness, Dualism & Intellect

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting ian glendinning <psybertron at gmail.com>:

> OK Platt, one small step at a time - well two - two examples.
> 
> Have you never "observed" a person modify their behaviour after a
> learning experience ? Have you ever observed such a person try to pass
> that learning on to another ?
> 
> Yes or no ?

Yes. But hardly the creation of anything new as evolution claims.
 
> Have you never seen or read sufficient evidence for you to believe
> that common viruses mutate - different strains of 'flu appearing in
> different places and times ? Do you believe in the recent existence of
> "resistant" strains of infection (super-bugs)that did not previously
> exist in hospitals ?
> 
> Yes or no ?

Yes. But viruses are not considered life forms, nor do the mutate into anything
other than viruses. 

> If you have, then you have observed and believed (what I mean by)
> evolution. What we may not agree on is the intellectual reasons of why
> I might use the word "evolution" to explain it, and you might
> attribute other "causal mechanisms".

Change is not what I mean by evolution.




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