Nice post I agree with most of it. I am mainly trying to counter the personification of Natural selection. All of these verbs keep getting attached to it that I just can't make myself accept no matter how hard I try over all these years. =)
Even you say this tidbit in your above clarification of the other man's post:
Natural selection will always act to adapt the species to the environment.
I see Natural Selection as a passive force. There's nothing behind it. To me the "moving components" are the organisms, their genes and the genetic drift in the population.
{ABE}Plus, I'm trying to find out whether or not InGodITrust believes that NS is a god or maybe even a devil, thinking entities he would presumably believe are capable of action.
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