John Edser wrote:

>>JM:-
>>That didn't quite answer the question that I meant to ask.  Le me try
>>to stretch your answer to cover what I intended, and you can tell me
>>whether I got it right:
>>Absolute fitness is the cause and "evolution" is the effect.  I am
>>assuming that "evolution", in this context, means something like a
>>change in genotype frequencies or a change in phenotype frequencies.
> 
> 
>>JE:-
>>Absolute parental fitness is the most distal cause of evolution,
>>i.e. its most BASIC cause.
> 
> 
> BOH:-
> Ah, but what causes parental fitness?
> 
> JE:-
> Absolute parental fitness is the inductive
> limit of the proposition while genes are
> it’s deductive limit. The causative proposition
> from genes to absolute parental fitness is the
> truth domain of the view. To answer
> the question “what causes parental fitness”
> the existing absolute proposition must stand
> refuted. By induction, (intelligent imagination)
> a new inductive absolute assumption must replace
> the old one forcing the refuted proposition of
> absolute parental fitness to be demoted from a
> maximum general term to just a variable. Thus, to
> answer your question, simply replace absolute parental
> fitness with a better maximal induction within a testable
> theory of evolution.
> 
I take it this means that you don't know.

Bob

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