> Carrol:
>
> Arash wrote:
>>
>>
>> Natural selection is in fact the only known
>> means for generating complex traits in the sense of complexity I was
>> referring to,
>
> Perhaps you are only using awkward language and are not really intending
> nonsense, so perhaps you can clarify later.
>
> But "natural selection" only SELECTS from what is there. It does not
> _generate_ anything at all, simple or complex.
>
> Arash:
>
> What I mean is that the functional organization found in a complicated
> adaptation can come into existence only through repeated natural
> selection. I don’t think using the verb "generate" to express this idea
> is particularly awkward usage, the paper I cited in my response to ravi
> used very similar language to make the same point,“Because natural
> selection is the only known mechanism capable of generating such
> functional complexs[argument from design]”
>
> http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/%7Emnkylab/publications/languagespeech/HauserChomskyFitch.pdf
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