Friday, October 05, 2007

Evolutionary design

It annoys me when people talk about evolution versus design.

For there is evolution in everything.

Even in nature, even before Darwin.

The revolution was in the proposed mechanism - endogenous, inbuilt, selection. Natural selection, if you like.

As opposed to, or by analogy with, the kind of things plant, pigeon or cattle breeders do when they interfere with natures way of doing things