tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21825668.post6269049757810422150..comments2024-03-27T13:09:26.512+05:30Comments on E=mc^2: Darwin’s Theory: DetractorsSujaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16539694685428659940noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21825668.post-23818765664408768872009-02-25T15:21:00.000+05:302009-02-25T15:21:00.000+05:30i thought so too regarding that quotes over the wo...i thought so too regarding that quotes over the word inferior, but just wanted to set it straight for the readers.<BR/>it bugs me to ends when ppl ridicule evolution with statements like "so u think Africans are still evolving to be human bcos they look a lot like the lowly monkey race" & "why did evolution chose humans to be the superior species?"<BR/>i want to scream into them what Richard Dawkins writes, "the adaptation of human brain to process more information and the tail of a cheetah to balance while sprinting had the same incentive in evolutionary terms, survival. we r just lucky that brain does the thinking and not the tail."S m i t h ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11740892960748954954noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21825668.post-61244970840445047872009-02-24T22:26:00.000+05:302009-02-24T22:26:00.000+05:30Smitha:May be I shouldn't have used the word ‘infe...Smitha:<BR/><BR/>May be I shouldn't have used the word ‘inferior’.<BR/> <BR/>Let me explain how I used it. For example, I wrote the following sentence in that blog:<BR/><BR/><I>It’s easy to create such gobbledygook and pass it off as <B>‘scientific’</B> argument.</I><BR/><BR/>Here I used the word scientific in quotes to imply that is not actually scientific but that’s how people look at it. <BR/><BR/>In the similar manner I wrote the following sentence:<BR/><BR/><I>For every version of aircraft (animal or plant) existing now, there is another one slightly <B>‘inferior’</B> existing a little earlier.</I><BR/><BR/>With those quotes I wanted to convey that that’s how people think – that it is ‘inferior’ but that’s not what it is. <BR/><BR/>May be, I shouldn’t be using those words in quotes – it could convey a wrong meaning. I will keep that in mind for next time. <BR/><BR/>Thanks for pointing it out.Sujaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16539694685428659940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21825668.post-70761269074800189762009-02-24T19:57:00.000+05:302009-02-24T19:57:00.000+05:30one small correction.. using the words inferior &a...one small correction.. using the words inferior & superior species in the context of Natural Selection is not justified. somehow those words give the theory a goal-oriented facet, whence it is not. previous generations of a species were as "best suited" as possible for its environment. a species can go extinct but not before leaving the group which managed to adapt to the changes in the environment. they didnt die bcos they were inferior but bcos of changes in the environment of which they have no control over.<BR/>Evolution is a blind watchmaker, who does not even know it is making a watch.S m i t h ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11740892960748954954noreply@blogger.com