At the end of Why Darwin Matters: A case against intelligent design, the author, Shermer, raises some interesting issues with Natural Selection. These will naturally be the issues for debate:
1) If natural selection is the primary mechanism of evolution, what is the role of chance and contingency in the history of life?
2) What is the target of Natural Selection: the individual organism; or the lower levels of genes, chromosomes, organelles, and cells; or the higher level of groups, species, etc.. Why?
Questions of Natural selection
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Questions of Natural selection
Post #1What we do for ourselves dies with us,
What we do for others and the world remains
and is immortal.
-Albert Pine
Never be bullied into silence.
Never allow yourself to be made a victim.
Accept no one persons definition of your life; define yourself.
-Harvey Fierstein
What we do for others and the world remains
and is immortal.
-Albert Pine
Never be bullied into silence.
Never allow yourself to be made a victim.
Accept no one persons definition of your life; define yourself.
-Harvey Fierstein
