Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id CAA00203 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-bounces@mmu.ac.uk); Fri, 24 Aug 2001 02:45:06 +0100 From: <joedees@bellsouth.net> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 20:49:12 -0500 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Design Message-ID: <3B856C48.17832.B487C4@localhost> In-reply-to: <002d01c12c02$16bb1280$a586b2d1@teddace> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: fmb-bounces@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
On 23 Aug 2001, at 11:33, Dace wrote:
> > On 08/21/01 14:23, Dace said this-
> >
> > >That the design comes about blindly and unconsciously through
> > >mutation
> and
> > >natural selection doesn't make it any less of a design.
> >
> > In fact, it makes it _not_ a design at all. And that is the point.
> >
> > - Wade
>
> I'm using the term in the sense of "a preliminary sketch or outline
> showing the main features of something to be executed" or "an
> underlying scheme that governs functioning, developing, or unfolding"
> (Webster's). What makes neo-Darwinism so attractive is that it keeps
> the design while disposing of the designer. This way, we can imagine
> we've had some sort of radical break from our superstitious past while
> covertly maintaining the same comforting belief. It's the old
> *somewhere-something's-in-charge* meme.
>
Actually, the template is indeed 'designed' by having various
mutations to precursors of it subjected to the winnowings of natural
(environmental) selection; what is jettisoned is the idea that this
gradual ecological biospheric self-sculpting involves a conscious
deific intentionality.
>
> Ted
>
>
>
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