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From our friends at Telic Thoughts: An Open Letter to Professors Jerry Coyne and Richard Dawkins

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An Open Letter, that is, on the Nature of Natural Selection, here:

The concept of natural selection on the surface seems to be a rather simple concept to grasp and you both have explained the concept in your respective writings. I have a few question regarding your views about the nature of natural selection, questions that I feel are not explicitly answered or addressed in your various writings. I have four basic questions, each with their own subset of questions:

1) Is natural selection a prescriptive or descriptive term?

2) Is natural selection a mechanism?

3) Is natural selection a cause or a force?

4) Is natural selection a process or an outcome?

It turns out, they’re all over the map.

But, you know, Darwinism does that to a guy.

As for a reply, we don’t recommend asking the message boy to wait. He needs his sleep.

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