[MD] Contradiction and incoherence.

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David,
Is this what Pirsig means when he uses the word "evolution" in Lila?

Sent laboriously from an iPhone,
Mark

On Mar 21, 2012, at 1:15 PM, david buchanan <dmbuchanan at hotmail.com> wrote:

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> How do dictionaries define evolution?  Is it "static" and "ever-changing"?
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> evolution |ˌevəˈloō sh ən|noun1 the process by which different kinds of living organisms are thought to have developed and diversified from earlier forms during the history of the earth.The idea of organic evolution was proposed by some ancient Greek thinkers but was long rejected in Europe as contrary to the literal interpretation of the Bible. Lamarck proposed a theory that organisms became transformed by their efforts to respond to the demands of their environment, but he was unable to explain a mechanism for this. Lyell demonstrated that geological deposits were the cumulative product of slow processes over vast ages. This helped Darwin toward a theory of gradual evolution over a long period by the natural selection of those varieties of an organism slightly better adapted to the environment and hence more likely to produce descendants. Combined with the later discoveries of the cellular and molecular basis of genetics, Darwin's theory of evolution has, with some modification, become the dominant unifying concept of modern biology.2 the gradual development of something, esp. from a simple to a more complex form : the forms of written languages undergoconstant evolution.
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