Peppered moths and evolution and Lippard's changing their spots

Kenneth Miller ^ | James Foard

[Dominic Harr]

Evolution doesn't necessarily result in the "best" selection.

Well, it results in the 'best' selection for the current environment.

Now if that environment allows a company to user marketing or, as in the case of Windows, coercion and fraud, then those kinds of companies will be selected.

[Karl_Lembke]

The 'Origin of the Species' was published in 1859,

Ah. I mis-remembered the date. Name someone using "natural selection" before 1859. And in particular, name a creationist researcher using the concept before it became so abundantly proved that creationists could no longer ignore it.

the full name of it (never used anymore since it shows what kind of guy Darwin was) is "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life".

Oh, you mean the "racist" libel? Look up the term "race" as it was used in the middle of the 19^th century. (And my copy of Webster's Ninth shows that the word was not used to refer to biological entities until 1899. I wonder what word was used before then? Could it have been ..... "race"?)

[balrog666]

Or it could be the system of un-natural selection, in which mega bucks and market dominance are leveraged to favor certain selections. Evolution doesn't necessarily result in the "best" selection.

True. Look at Beta versus VHS. I guess it all depends on the marketing budget.