tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16379550.post114324141272871335..comments2023-07-04T18:47:44.843-04:00Comments on Somethink to Chew On: why people don't understand and/or support natural selectionHarlanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10090536998999734716noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16379550.post-1143308343887457362006-03-25T12:39:00.000-05:002006-03-25T12:39:00.000-05:00That’s quite correct. More to that is most do not ...That’s quite correct. <BR/><BR/>More to that is most do not attempt to understand what evolution by natural selection is.<BR/>The usual rhetoric is that, it’s just a theory! Followed by a how can this happen? And so on…<BR/><BR/>Personal incredulity plays the biggest part in this followed of course by the religious view. <BR/><BR/>While a potter making a pot is quite logical the inversion of a pot making the potter does not seem get the acceptance of most of the general population. Precisely the point is that it’s not as simple as the pot making the potter in a day. Without a rudimentary understanding of geology, a grip of history, some cosmology and a general understanding about how things work, it certainly is difficult to come out of the comfortable cocoon and understand evolution. That’s why Daniel Dennet calls it as Darwin’s dangerous idea! <BR/><BR/>If this is for the general population, the scientifically inclined have got much-hardened roadblocks. The essence of evolution is being made to understand in a plane, which we really cannot experience at all. This is the time factor, the immensity of which simply doesn’t seep in to most of them. <BR/><BR/>Cognitive sciences being a bit more complicated, requires more than a simple effort to understand than the evolution of morphs. The master conjurer, the creator of self, and the ghost in the machine are certainly a product of the same evolution. If some one doesn’t understand the fundamentals and essence of Darwinian evolution, applied to physical entities in the first place, you can be assured that he or she is never ever going to understand the same if applied to evolutionary psychology. <BR/><BR/>Believe me, it takes quite some effort to push out the prism called tradition to view such things. Such a prism among other things is also a product of medieval process of solace seeking and is so very well entrenched!D.Rajeshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17185365500461337302noreply@blogger.com