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Subject:	Re: Adaptation
From:	Peter Borst <[log in to unmask]>
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Date:	Mon, 6 Nov 2023 10:00:34 -0500
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There is a popular Darwinian science, based on the professional science, but – along with simpliﬁcations of the technical mathematical studies – full of cultural values, most notably thoughts of cultural Progress and biological progress, upwards climb to human beings. 

Charles Sanders Peirce: “Darwin, while unable to say what the operation of variation and natural selection in any individual case will be, demonstrates that in the long run they will, or would, adapt animals to their circumstances.”

If someone ﬁnds it helpful to think of change as a Darwinian process, then who is to say other? However, the danger is that the metaphor can mean all things to all people.

Today’s neo-pagans are a bit daft. A room full of stark-naked, earnest and rather humorless, moon worshippers, putting together a journal issue, is indeed a sight for sore eyes.

—Michael Ruse 2019

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