Nothing in anything I have ever written about sociobiology or evolution justifies a charge of Panglossian adaptionism. In fact, in the present discussion I pointed to a number of possible design defects, a position inconsistent with Panglossian adaptationism. Also I emphasized the anti-Panglossian position that different adaptive strategies (sexual pleasure and patriarchy) clash. However, the fact that "sometimes stuff just happens" is no reason to think that it "just happened: in a particular case and is certainly no refutation of a tentatively advanced evolutionary hypothesis. Let's not debate straw men here, please.
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> > On Jan 22, 2007, at 10:35 PM, andie nachgeborenen
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> > > Almost all evolutionary explanations are just so
> > > stories -- this is in fact a standard
> creationist
> > > objection to evolution.
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> > But sometimes stuff just happens. A lot of
> "evolutionary"
> > explanations try to find a justification for
> everything, rather like
> > intelligent design.
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