Answer truthfully, is Al Franken ascended from Chimpanzees?
Posted on 09/13/2006 3:52:47 PM PDT by DannyTN
Ignorance is bliss placemarker.
(Off to the lab for a while)
Because a) that's a really lousy description of evolution, and b) evolution, like science in general, describes what happens in nature. That in no way requires humanity to follow suit.
For example, the fact that epidemics occur in nature doesn't mean that we ought to idly sit by while diseases run rampant.
If humans enjoyed things happening according to the laws of nature, and didn't have our own ideas about how conditions could be improved, we'd still be living in caves.
Well, yes. In an ice age or a period of global warning, a species might become extinct that might be your favorite food group or favorite source of shelter from the sun or warmth from the cold during the next cyclic extreme.
We've all been through this business before of trying to deal with the problem of "speciation" in bacteria and viruses.
It does take us beyond Darwin's book about "The origin of species" you know, 'cause all those changes in the disease bugs don't give us new species ~ just bugs better able to defeat our own immune system ~ not that they are trying to defeat it ~ they just don't want to git'et by our white blood cells.
Point being that changes in immunology are only by the greatest of stretches described as "evolution in action".
A positive aspect to evolution of a firestorm virulence is that it burns out. Sure it's harsh on part of a population, but it is quickly over and done.
At our meetings we pass out Electronic Ignorance Divining Rods that slip into our USB ports (thank God for the new generation -- the old analog Ignorance Divining Rods were really cumbersome).
When the light goes on and the alarm rings we know that Willful Ignorance is on the march.
Like I said, some changes are no different than cats into dogs, and dogs into cats.
It can be, if it eliminates redundancy in a critical ecospheric niche, because you're then hoping that some virus doesn't evolve to wipe out that last remaining "system" in that niche.
29 ? WOW
Yes, 29+ separate and independently cross-confirming lines of evidence indicating the validity of macroevolution, and in each of those 29+ lines of evidence are thousands to millions of individual pieces of evidence, observation, and research findings.
Wow indeed.
If you're being sarcastic, on the other hand, you're just making it really obvious that you didn't even bother reading the material before getting childishly snotty about it. Read my tagline.
Naw, you guys are just trying to pick up smart chicks.
I did a KILLER version of that song last night at Kareoke. It was the original Billie Holiday mix and I pitched it an octave low and did a few riffs (but not too many).
It will now be part of my permanent song rotation.
Answer truthfully, is Al Franken ascended from Chimpanzees?
They don't. They don't even know if and when that happens. What they don't like is the IDEA that some species die off. Even though 99% of all species that ever existed have died off.
Speak for yourself -- I saw the Platypus Signal beaming its message onto the clouds, so I hopped into my MonotremeMobile and sped right on over here. How do you like the duckbill on my mask?
No doubt species extinction CAN be a problem--- but my point was that it is not intrinsically a bad thing, or even if it is intrisically a bad thing, there are times when the negative of species being extinguished is far outweighed by the positive-- the tsete fly being (it seemed to me) an example almost as obvious as rinos.
Wouldn't you both agree the elimination of the tsete fly would be a net benefit to humanity?
That is probably true. They have a long history and have changed style now and then. Blame it on Darwin, but that monk with the pea plants is what got them started.
"Evolution Is Practically Useless, Admits Darwinist
The world doesn't need a Darwinist to admit evolution is useless junk science. We, except Darwinists, of course, knew that.
Maybe. Then again it might have a vital ecological function we are unaware of.
Evolution is very highly useful to those who have to make catalogs of plants and animals. There is no better way to organize the catalog, although there might be other ways such as by weight.
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