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magic math tricks wrote:
> > Mathematics has existed for only a few thousand years, a time span much too
> > short to cause any evolutionary change.
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> dimwit, did I say anything about evolutionary change? I'm talking
> about whether math is evolutionarily PREFERRED. This does not
> necessarily mean there has been any observable changes yet. stop
> changing the subject inadvertantly, dim.
How can you claim something is evolutionarily preferred without being
able to measure evolutionary change that favors the trait? It isn't
possible to predict which things will cause evolutionary change in the
future; we can, however, determine things that have resulted from
evolutionary change in the past.
Suppose that the Earth had been destroyed billions of years ago; then
we could not say that the modern species are evolutionarily preferred
over the ones that were destroyed, because evolution would not have had
a chance to prefer them.
Similarly, we can't say whether math aptitude, or television watching,
is evolutionarily preferred until we observe some evolutionary change
resulting from the trait.
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