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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Greg or e who wrote (2394)	10/23/2000 11:47:19 PM
From: TigerPaw	Respond to of 28931

If that's the key now, what was the key then? If evolution happened then why is is not observable now? It's been the same old story these last 4 billion years. Of course the infrastructure necessary for a barely able to reproduce RNA molecule was probably just a warm sulfer rich volcanic vent. It takes much more infrastructure to compete in today's modern world where a bacteria would nab you in an instant if it could. 4 billion years ago if something reproduced,there was nothing else to stop it. why is is not observable now? Was it ever observable? It takes several generations for evolution to affect change. You have to be able to remember 20 or 25 years to find appreciable evolution in the most reproductive life forms. In that time several new species of flowers have evolved, the fire-ants in Texas evolved into multiple queen colonies, and almost every major disease became resistant to common anti-biotics. Sometimes you have to look outside your bible to observe. TP

To: Greg or e who wrote (2394)	10/24/2000 12:43:06 AM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

See, Greg, I think you misunderstand me. Even though I have some unorthodox ideas about the mechanisms of evolution and TP and I debate these, I would never suggest that evolution hasn't or isn't taking place. I've studied fossils. You just can't buy a static Earth if you look at the fossil data. BTW, evolution has not stopped. There is a species of bacteria that can now eat dioxin. Where was it growing? In a dioxin-laced chemical pit. Evolution. But also a guiding had creating an ability to break down a resource that, to us, is a toxin, but to it, is food.