"Malcolm"  wrote 

> > Okay, I can work with this.  But allow me to make a
> > suggestion.  Before you formulate a question/problem
> > read back through the thread: don't lose track of the
> > fact that we were discussing 'cause'.
> >
> You said "I'd say that the cause is N[atural]S[election]". I
disagreed. I'm
> trying to see whether the disagreement is due to different definitions of
> NS.

Maybe you should attempt to offer (argue for) a definition 
of NS that explicitly excludes random causation.

Jim
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