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Because as Dawkins points out you cannot intentionally evolve a target species. You can intentionally select from a set of results to influence future results,
by joshuak 6y ago
Because as Dawkins points out you cannot intentionally evolve a target species. You can intentionally select from a set of results to influence future results, but you cannot produce a particular result intentionally.
- yters 6y agoeven proximate results being selected is intentionality. i.e. i select a more simple design, then one with an interesting whorl, then one that looks like a bug. all that is intentional. or his example of butterflies selecting butterfly like biomorphs. again intentional, but at the insect level it seems all very ambiguous what dawkins is trying to argue. if i try to make his argument rigorously worded it falls apart