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> Evolution is not only a claim that
> something changed, but it is also a claim that it happened by a purely
> naturalistic, mutation + natural selection process.
Is this claim really true? I understand that Darwin (Charles) and
neo-Darwinist fundamentalists such as Dawkins hold to that claim, but it
seems to me (a non-biologist) that many if not most evolutionists today
claim that evolution = "change in allele frequencies." If that is indeed
the current definition of evolution, then there is nothing in it that
requires Naturalism (in the sense of capital N Naturalism discussed here
several months ago).
Lloyd Eby
leby@nova.umuc.edu