http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-intro-to-biology.html
This is a very good primer on evolutionary biology. It is over 100K but evolutionary theory is the cornerstone of modern biology; it is hard to summarize it shorter and still do it justice.
Matt
On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 09:56:56AM -0800, andie nachgeborenen wrote:
> No it doesn't. This isn't even seriously arguable.
> Haven't you been following the recent debate on
> biology? Please, Chris, I am starting to get annowyed.
> Go out and read some SJ Gould or R. Lewtontin or R
> Dawkins and get some basic biologicalt literacy.
> Successful adapation means having more babies that
> themselves survive to reproductive age. Natural
> selection is a sieve that promotes such adaptation by
> favoring mutations that have this effect in various
> environments. If I hear once more from supposedly
> informed persons that this is tautological,
> question-begging, circular, or any such crap, I am
> going to scream. Question begging mean putting the
> conclusion in the premises. Evolutionary explanations
> that invoke natural selection don't do this. Why can't
> people see this?
>
> --- Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > Actually this begs the question.
> >
> > --- andie nachgeborenen
> > <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Evolution does not tend toeards "higher" forms of
> > > life, whatever those are. It tends to towards
> > > successful adaaption.
> >
> >
> > Nu, zayats, pogodi!
> >
> >
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