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To: VadeRetro

So, based upon the theory espoused by some that forming social organizations is an advanced form of evolution...

Humans - evolved
Cougars - not evolved
House cats - perhaps evolved
Dolphins - evolved
Honey bees - evolved
termintes - evolved

I think this is made up. I think that humans recognize a moral value to other human's lives and that is why they value them, not for selfish survival needs.


513 posted on 09/13/2005 5:35:09 PM PDT by Paloma_55
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To: Paloma_55
I think this is made up.

I think you're trying to bludgeon me with creative misunderstandings. Social behavior is an adaptation that works where it works. It probably doesn't work for cougars because they live in forest habitats where stalking and pouncing from cover work fine without help. A cougar hunting territory is necessarily so big that it dictates a low population density for the cougars. That in turn makes a social approach unlikely.

517 posted on 09/13/2005 5:42:46 PM PDT by VadeRetro (Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
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To: Paloma_55
"So, based upon the theory espoused by some that forming social organizations is an advanced form of evolution...

"Humans - evolved
"Cougars - not evolved
"House cats - perhaps evolved
"Dolphins - evolved
"Honey bees - evolved
"termintes - evolved

"I think this is made up. I think that humans recognize a moral value to other human's lives and that is why they value them, not for selfish survival needs

You are quite right, it is made up - by you.

No one ever said that evolution is more advanced in social animals. We said, if you would care to read the posts, that the evolutionary path taken by any given organism is based on different circumstances and is therefore different. One path is not 'more' or 'less' advanced than any other, just different.

557 posted on 09/13/2005 7:50:46 PM PDT by b_sharp (Science adjusts theories to fit evidence, creationism distorts evidence to fit the Bible.)
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