I'm not saying it is. I was simply remarking that a system (weather),
which seems much closer to basic physics than the development of living
things, exhibits the unpredictable behavior and sensitive dependence on
initial conditions we associate with evolution. In no way was I trying to
claim they are equivalent -- only that you don't need a system with as many
interacting components as you have in a biological population to exhibit
some of the characteristic behaviors we see in evolution.
That
>sort of comparison pretends a scientific respectability for evolutionary
>theory which it clearly does not possess.
Bill Hamilton
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William E. Hamilton, Jr., Ph.D.
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