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From: bmb@bluemoon.uucp (Bryan Bankhead)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: The function of sex?
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Date: 12 May 91 06:32:50 GMT
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The aforsaid italian mathematician is making a fundamental philosophical 
error.  It is the error of natural teleology.  It is the idea that 
'nature' has a 'plan' and that we are bad little boys and girls if we 
don't follow the plan.  Nature is not a perceptive entity with wi, and the 
characteristics that we observ in nature are an emergent property of 
random operations. Evolutionary biologists often use teleological 
constructs in talking about evolution and nature but they are the first to 
tell you that they are just a linguistic convenience.  I'll beth the 
mathematician in catholic. (most italians are) The phony 'natural law' 
construct appears a lot in catholic casuistry.

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