"Malcolm"  wrote 

> OK stop there. Are you using the term "natural selection" in
this sense?
> 
> "If I have a big bucket of beans of different sizes, and take some of them
> out with a scoop, that is natural selection because a natural process is
> selecting some of them?"
> 
> Or would you restrict it to this sense?
> 
> "If I have a big bucket of beans of diffferent sizes and take some of them
> out with a sieve, so that smaller beans will tend to fall out, that is
> natural selection because the bigger beans are being selected for."

I don't think either of these two examples is a good analogy for NS.

Jim
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