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Originally Posted by sman
I believe this is the product of teleological thinking, which is often and easily, but nontheless falaciously, applied to biology. Teleology was Lamark’s guide to evolution, and he was smarter than us, so we should be very cautious of it. The process of evolution does not design systems according to any kind of necessity. It can only work with the variation in the way things are working in the here and now - cannot plan for the future.
The annunciations of linguistics are temporal, open to critisizm and open to new ideas. My advice is to make sure our ideas check out with Natural Selection, the strongest theory in science.
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But, we are able to plan for the future, so let's make sure our ideas check out with Natural Selection and ideas that are futile, or detrimental, are segregated until a verified conclusion can be determined.
And, I say we do things my way, because my way is the strongest way. And, for starters in association with this topic give me the proper liguistic characteristics for the concept, science?
From there we will begin work on, "it," "idea," and "religion."
