On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 10:28 PM, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote:
On 1/23/2015 11:44 AM, John Clark wrote: > > >> A jet engine works better than a prop engine in an airplane. I give you > a prop engine and tell you to turn it into a jet, but you must do it while > the engine is running, you must do it in one million small steps, and you > must do it so every single one of those small steps immediately improves > the operation of the engine. Eventually you would get an improved engine of > some sort, but it wouldn't look anything like a jet. If the tire on your > car is getting worn you can take it off and put a new one on, but evolution > could never do something like that, because when you take the old tire off > you have temporarily made things worse, now you have no tire at all. With > evolution EVERY step (generation), no matter how many, MUST be an immediate > improvement over the previous one. > > > The general idea is right, but it's NOT the case that every change must > be an improvement. It is only the case that it must not make things worse. > Yes, I'll concede that point. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
