P.sennae

[John Grehan]

Neil Jones wrote:

>It is an excellent book but I think Patrick Foley misses the point.
>The only purpose of butterflies' wings is to move butterflies around.
>They are like that because some random event in their past history
>caused natural selection to shape them that way.

How do you know this to be the case?

>
>It is the same for human legs; they exist only to permit us to move around.

I am not aware that there is any empirical evidence for this claim.

>Those of us who are more successful mate more often and have more
>offspring. Even the human mind is only something that has been shaped
>by natural selection to help us to mate,procreate and raise our offspring
>better. This could be described in short as "Coitio ergo sum". ;-)

Again, how do you know this?

Sincerely, John Grehan