"John Edser"  wrote 

> Please note: it was JMcG and _not_ JE
> who proffered an absurd infinite truth
> domain when he suggested his infinite number
> of simultaneous levels of selection 
> (units of selection) was scientifically 
> valid. 


Why do you find this proposition so objectionable?  
Afterall you do not deny the existence of biological 
entities such as genes, cells, groups, species, 
biomes, and ecosytems.  Surely you would not have us 
ignore the existence and evolutionary origins of 
these biological entities.  

You're saying it's always necessary to look at 
evobiological phenomena from the perspective of the 
individual.  I'm saying it's not always necessary or 
desirable to look at evobiological phenomena *only* 
from the perspective of the individual.  Sometimes it 
is valuable to look at it from the perspective of 
these other biological entities/levels/units.

John, I'm afraid the expansiveness of evobiological 
phenomena could never be conceptually confined to 
your Finite Domain of Truth.  

Jim
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