From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Apr 30 2003 - 19:44:10 MDT
Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
>> By "best adapted" I mean "genetically adapted best to the
>> organism's own environment vs some other environment in which
>> the organism did not evolve."
>
> Yes, that's exactly what Eli is saying you mean, and is the
> classic logic error.
No it is not. I am simply using the word "adapted" according to its concise
definition as it relates to evolution. It is impossible for an organism to
be genetically adapted to an environment in which it did not evolve.
Adaptation is a process that happens only in the context of an environment.
Eliezer doesn't read my messages carefully, else he would have known all
along that I do not reject improvements on the paleodiet from nutritional
and medical science, i.e., he does not realize or acknowledge that I *agree*
with him that humans may be better suited (but not better adapted) to other
environments. It seems you and at least one other person here are also under
the same false impression about my views, despite my numerous attempts to
clarify.
My advocacy of natural paleolithic diets should not be construed to mean
that I am advocating a Luddite point of view, or that I am anti-science. All
arguments along such lines are BS.
-gts
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