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Thread #154775   Message #3637565
Posted By: TheSnail
29-Jun-14 - 07:00 AM
Thread Name: BS: Scientific misconceptions.
Subject: RE: BS: Scientific misconceptions.
Steve Shaw
What a shame that poor old Charles Darwin has the likes of you and Adolf around to misinterpret him

Don't do that Steve, there's a good chap. It only serves to draw attention to your complete failure to put forward any sort of coherent scientific case.

I am not sure how I can be accused of misrepresenting Darwin by quoting him verbatim. You seem to have some trouble understanding what he said. Perhaps some highlights would help -

Owing to this struggle for life, any variation, however slight and from whatever cause proceeding, if it be in any degree profitable to an individual of any species, in its infinitely complex relations to other organic beings and to external nature, will tend to the preservation of that individual, and will generally be inherited by its offspring. The offspring, also, will thus have a better chance of surviving, for, of the many individuals of any species which are periodically born, but a small number can survive. I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection, in order to mark its relation to man's power of selection.