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To: Age of Reason
I suspect the fossil record will show a close correlation between the advent of agriculture and an epidemic of tooth decay.

I think you may be onto something here. Evolution is OLD. Agriculture is very recent (in historical ages).

We have to put up with things that our remote ancestors were not built for.

Consider driving. Consider the instant reaction time needed to get out of the way of some idiot who breaks right-of-way. Consider the thousands of casualties per year in the USA.

Maybe evolution is still ongoing.

20 posted on 09/26/2003 6:31:48 PM PDT by LibKill (Father Darwin has a sense of humor but no mercy whatsoever.)
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To: LibKill
I know I'm on to something.

People will pay big bucks for the chance to go on vacation fishing or hunting or hiking up a mountain or through the woods.

But how often do people pay for a vacation of walking behind a plough?
21 posted on 09/26/2003 6:35:28 PM PDT by Age of Reason
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To: LibKill
And driving scares the heck out of me.

Bruce Williams (a radio financial advisor, I guess you'd call him) years ago told his listeners that he would never get behind the wheel of a car without a million-dollars of liability insurance.

What might one need today, a billion?

I don't know how many times I nearly ran someone down because some idiot pedestrian did something stupid, like darting out from between parked cars.

However careful a driver you are, accidents will happen.

Pray chance does not make a serious accident your fault--it can happen to the best of drivers.

How times have changed: Henry Ford, out for a spin in one of his first automobiles, which he tinkered together in his garage, ran some fellow over. Several bystanders and Ford had to pick the horseless carriage off the victim, who ended up under the vehicle. The guy dusted himself off and with an exchange of courtesies, went on his way. Today--could you imagine the lawsuit?

23 posted on 09/26/2003 6:46:55 PM PDT by Age of Reason
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To: LibKill
"...Maybe evolution is still ongoing..."
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Oh, there is no "maybe" about it.
Evolution continues, most assuredly, it does.
I have spent many years reading, researching, pondering, and hypothesizing about this; and my conclusions are not encouraging.
What human characteristics currently favor the production of the most offspring?
25 posted on 09/26/2003 7:03:50 PM PDT by DefCon
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