Really? How different are we from those of Washington's time a little over 200 years ago?
“Given the array of environmental conditions on the planet, one kind of organism might gain a temporary advantage, but such gains will soon be countered by other, competing organisms.”
I’m guessing that human ability to change the environmental conditions around them (irrigation, air-conditioning, buildings, growing crops, desalination, heating, etc.) gives us a leg up on the other organisms.
I’m sure 50 million conservatives can manage.
Wouldn’t the existence of 100-million-year-old turtles invalidate “The Red Queen Hypothesis” right out of the gate?
There are life forms that have existed for thousands of years virtually unchanged. e.g. cockroaches. How does this fit?
Life is always so much easier when one can discount the role of an absolute Creator that has eternal plans for man. The atheist refers to believe that when he closes his eyes in death there is nothing more . . . no eternal hell where the worm dieth not, forever banished from the presence of that Creator.
Dream on, atheists, dream on.
However, there is a remedy for your delusion, Jesus Christ Who gave His life for you on Calvary and rose again that you might live eons upon eons and be like the One that gave you life.
Your choice . . . where will you be in billion years?
Life is essentially self replicating information. Since people have become the masters of information itself they have become the ultimate winners.
I do not see how random genetic drift, in which any and all outcomes are nearly equally fit would ever move the world from algae to humans. You would definitely need Intelligent Design (God) to see progress.
They speak of general tendencies as if they were laws of nature. In fact, after the Permian Extinction, there was in fact a proto mammal that dominated for tens of millions of years in virtually every corner of the Earth. Likewise, salps and are still incredibly large portion of biomass in the oceans. These “winners” are rare, but certainly do occur. The real trade off is that if a species mutates quickly it will have many descendant species. If it mutates slowly, it will be more likely to die off. But if it is in a very successful niche, like salps or horseshoe crabs or cockroaches or termites, it can do both.
This guy, Yuval Harari, came up with alluring book titles and he writes well, but his theories themselves are filled with huge holes and gross illogic.
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