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Politics : Evolution -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (585)	9/16/1999 12:51:00 AM
From: Tunica Albuginea	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

Lather.Rinse.Repeat. i can tell you are a party animal and can appreciate subtle humor. I take comfort in that. On to the black box, and..... The current theory of evolution has not been successfully extended back beyond the fully functioning unicell. The theory for going from prebiotic conditions, the "mud hole" if you will, to a fully competent unicell is a big black box. Learn something everyday . That tells you how long it's been since I read up on evolution, GGGG. BUT, b u t, Lather.Rinse.Repeat....of course evolution has been extended back by the scientific method of trying to reconstruct a past event. ( same type of logic used in reconstructing the Theory of Evolution )!!!!! The Theory clearly implies no Guiding Hand . Well then obviously it is logical, reasonable, human? to assume, that there was No Guiding Hand also in the pre-biotic era, , correct? So no black box there for me LRR. I know now that the little molecules and the photons with the electromagnetic waves as well as the microwaves the prions , protons, electrons, w h a t e v e r , all got together, did their magic dance over 5 billion years and hoopla!!! we got the 5th symphony. This is so elementary that any high schooler in America can understand. In Europe it is a little harder I have to admit because in high schools there where they teach philosophy, the kids learn by grade 11 to believe that anything a teacher says is wrong or a t least highly suspicious, till proven correct. ( Which is why BTW it is SO hard to reach Europeans new tricks: they are so suspicious. )[ the corollary is that that is why technology moves faster in America: they are so open minded to any ides no matter how crazy it sounds in the beginning. Which is why BTW technology maybe so helpful to the technologically oriented as Michelle Harris hinted earlier, TA you said Message #585 from Lather.Rinse.Repeat. at Sep 15 1999 10:56PM I think you are pretty safe against argument from me. While I Now Have Built-in Conditioner!!! I can't tell how deep into your cheek (if that is the proper anatomical metaphor for someone named after ... an anatomical metaphor) your tongue is thrust. So I'm not gonna take you on; I'd risk feeling stoopid if I earnestly deconstructed what might be levity. Party on. ---------------- and ---------------- Message #567 from Lather.Rinse.Repeat. at Sep 15 1999 8:21PM It is not nearly so simple, Tunica. Your "random mud-hole" phrase is designed to be pejorative. It reminds me of that monumentally annoying Diuretics commercial that ridicules irreligious scientific theory. The current theory of evolution has not been successfully extended back beyond the fully functioning unicell. The theory for going from prebiotic conditions, the "mudhole" if you will, to a fully competent unicell is a big black box. There is currently a great deal of interest in panspermia theories ... the idea that life did not independently arise on Earth, but bacteria from extrasolar sources "inoculated" the young Earth just as soon as it became at all hospitable. So there is wiggle room between the mudhole and the altar.