re: #879 Cato

I work, so I don’t have time to answer in detail.

1) Natural selection makes no distinction between activities or structures than enhance or detract from survival and reproduction.

2) Since humans freely choose to do things that impede the process of their own genes surviving, it cannot be said that natural selection works in the same way as it works for other species. What other species gives up their own power to reproduce? What other species kills in the womb perfectly fit members of their species (after birth, there are plenty of examples)? What other species engages in sexual acts that cannot bring about reproduction? What other species shares food with weaker members?

3) What are the above examples of? Unfitness in Darwinian terms.

4)Those who object that there may be an advantage to the species but not to the individual do not understand Darwinian theory. Species are FORMED by the accumulation of individual variations. Species do not cooperate to preserve the existing genetic types. To do so is putting those types outside of the productive/destructive process of natural selection. Therefore, if this is what we are doing, it is done as a bulwark AGAINST natural selection, not as a part of it.

None of that is evidence. It’s all your opinion. You claimed to know of “gobs and gobs” of evidence, and all you’re coming up with are opinions.

Where’s the evidence?