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Originally posted by FreakyKBH
How should we classify natural selection, if not a force of nature?
The first four forces are the physical forces that shape the universe we live in. Social and Natural pressures are not those but yet that are just as innate in our frame of reference.

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Originally posted by FreakyKBH
How should we classify natural selection, if not a force of nature?
Your initial post implied you were talking about known fundamental physical forces. Now you wish to classify a totaly different kind of force which is even to some extent a different definition for the word force and phrase 'force of nature'. Please get to the point so that the discusion at least takes on some meaning.

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Of the posts since my last one, only Dr.Scribbles was close to the germane issue (albeit with a bent the other direction). If natural selection is not one of the forces, how is it to be classified?

It's the miracle/magic/must have of the universe, of course! Unless someone here can properly classify it...

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Originally posted by FreakyKBH
Of the posts since my last one, only Dr.Scribbles was close to the germane issue (albeit with a bent the other direction). If natural selection is not one of the forces, how is it to be classified?

It's the miracle/magic/must have of the universe, of course! Unless someone here can properly classify it...
No, you just dont understand english very well thats all.

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Originally posted by twhitehead
No, you just dont understand english very well thats all.
And my grasp of the apostrophe is atrocious, as well.

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Originally posted by FreakyKBH
I am aware of four forces of nature. To wit:
1. Gravitational
2. Electromagnetic
3. Strong
4. Weak

Am I missing one (or more) of the forces?
No takers, huh?

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Originally posted by XanthosNZ
The first four forces are the physical forces that shape the universe we live in. Social and Natural pressures are not those but yet that are just as innate in our frame of reference.

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Originally posted by XanthosNZ
'At's not an answer, gov'nah!

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Originally posted by FreakyKBH
'At's not an answer, gov'nah!
Explain why.

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Originally posted by FreakyKBH
Of the posts since my last one, only Dr.Scribbles was close to the germane issue (albeit with a bent the other direction). If natural selection is not one of the forces, how is it to be classified?

It's the miracle/magic/must have of the universe, of course! Unless someone here can properly classify it...
I thought I did that.
Natural selection is a natural process - not a fundamental force.

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"No one in this thread gave the answer I wanted so they must not have answered the question I asked."

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No. What I am saying, is that no one on the thread has yet stepped forward to classify this thing we call natural selection. What is it?

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Originally posted by FreakyKBH
No. What I am saying, is that no one on the thread has yet stepped forward to classify this thing we call natural selection. What is it?
For crying out loud, it's a NATURAL PROCESS!

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Originally posted by amannion
For crying out loud, it's a NATURAL PROCESS!
Just to clarify (and avoid any unnecessary tissues) it is not a force, correct?

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Originally posted by FreakyKBH
Just to clarify (and avoid any unnecessary tissues) it is not a force, correct?
Correct!