Evolution.
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Spearthrower wrote:pfrankinstein wrote:You troll the thread sir. Right here right now that is what you are doing. An attempt to derail.
As usual, you run away and toss out diversions - as if anyone's deceived by your litany of bullshit.
Again, you're just lying at me as if I don't know that I've answered your question dozens of times.
So your manufactured diversion when caught lying is just to lie some more!
http://www.rationalskepticism.org/post2 ... n#p2793243
Darkchilde wrote:pfrankinstein wrote:Spearthrowers 2nd link wrote:Stellar evolution is not biological evolution, even though they rather unfairly share the same word!
The word 'evolution' has a Darwinian unambiguous meaning in science, that = descent modification selection. To describe stellar change as evolution is wrong, slovenly imo, that is unless one See's Darwin's mechanism and a process.
Paul.
Stellar evolution refers to the birth, life and death of a star. It has a definite meaning in astrophysics. A lot of astrophysics books are titled "stellar evolution".
The word evolution is not a word used exclusively in biology; evolution in general does not refer to the theory of evolution, but to anything that changes over time usually via specific processes.
The Oxford Dictionary has it as the theory of evolution as 1, and "the gradual development of something" as 2.
http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/evolution
twistor59 wrote:True, physics uses the term "evolution" to mean any shit that changes with time. So for example, Newton's laws define the time evolution of classical systems from an initial state, Schroedinger's equation describes the time evolution of a quantum state from an initial value....
Evolution in the Darwinian sense has the extra ingredient of some mechanism for introducing variability and the ingredient of natural selection.
pfrankinstein wrote:By what mechanism change, by what mechanism the unfolding?
pfrankinstein wrote:If it has a mechanism then it can be described as a process.
pfrankinstein wrote:An exploded view of evolution mine.
pfrankinstein wrote: A wheel within a wheel train of thinking.
pfrankinstein wrote:Did the 'theory of process' unfold in the mind of Charles Darwin, did his 'theory of process' change the world.
In each, unfold, change by The mechanism.
pfrankinstein wrote:That is you answer a different question to the one asked.
pfrankinstein wrote:What is Evolution? Is a specific question. Precision is everything.
pfrankinstein wrote:Science requires it,...
pfrankinstein wrote:... else a gifted writer may propose fiction.
pfrankinstein wrote:We already have you answer.
pfrankinstein wrote:Tedious. Savvy you sir?
pfrankinstein wrote:Frequently, I tell myself that I have nothing.
Because I contend that nature was making selection before NS. sometimes wonder if Charles Darwin had charged himself with a different initial question than the one he asked.Instead of the origin of species, suppose he had asked himself a different question: "The origin of all the different planets in our solar system."
pfrankinstein wrote:Do you think he would have proposed a mechanism and a type of selection? Only me who sees it?
Advanced theoretical evolution is not a subject. So I explain my theory to myself.
I'd be out of step with everyone else. In that regard, I'd be a misfit.
I tell myself that I have nothing.
fluttermoth wrote:
Probably the truest sentence written on the internet today.
It's hard to believe Paul's been waffling on like this for so many years, it's rather tragic, he could have gone and got a couple of degrees in something in that time
romansh wrote:
Ahh but what is the process for the change in allele distribution? Just rattling your chain.
Paul ... after all these months are we any closer to an answer to "Do snowflakes replicate?"
Causality is neither a novel, controversial or disputed matter. Personally assigning it the weight and import of a scientific theory or law, and then claiming on the internet that your apprehension of causality represents an entirely fresh approach to understanding the universe and everything in it, is an exercise in elevating the trivial while placing yourself (literally) at the centre of all things.pfrankinstein wrote:THWOTH wrote:I'm bored with redundant arguments from definitional literalism - it's merely hiding behind words. Can you try something else now please Paul?
Do you consider your very existence, your being here, the result of an uninterrupted chain of "cause and effect" from bang to now?
By casting a line back to the big bang, you can see that the line passes through three distinct chapters.
The chapters are defined by the majority of their forms. I take "type" into account. both types of environment and material.
By such means, the three chapters are divided. Interestingly, the chapters are totally different, so much so that some may never grasp that they are related.
I'd have it that way. Charles Darwin noticed total differences in species. Unperturbed, he made the connection—the relation—by means of a common ancestor.
With my "one bang, one process" theory, I count the big bang as a type of ultimate common ancestor.
For me, the process of evolution began when time started. It is my standard model. Other flavours are available.
Paul.
pfrankinstein wrote:fluttermoth wrote:
Probably the truest sentence written on the internet today.
It's hard to believe Paul's been waffling on like this for so many years, it's rather tragic, he could have gone and got a couple of degrees in something in that time
The leading protagernist (writer troll) refuses to get off first base. I am forced into the loop.
pfrankinstein wrote:In many ways, I see the writer troll as useful. Because of him, I am forced to examine the core understanding of the phenomenon (evolution).
pfrankinstein wrote:Because of him, I am forced to repeat myself.
pfrankinstein wrote: Repatician is a Victorian method of teaching that is still used today. The x-table is still taught that way.
pfrankinstein wrote:The writer troll has already conceded that evolution is a process; now he treads water and actively ignores.
pfrankinstein wrote:A very sad state of affairs.
pfrankinstein wrote:Imagine if time travel was possible today. You and I could go back to Down House; you could pull Charles Darwin's chain about genetics, and I could ask him about my theory of process. And if it happens to be snowing on that particular day, We'd be quids in.
To test and retest, you would have to travel more than once.
Just saying.
Paul
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