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To: David R who wrote (94610)	11/29/2000 6:03:05 PM
From: Enam Luf	Respond to of 769667

(apologies to the thread for being off topic) Interesting. As far as I am concerned, survival of the fittest is the rule of rules, all the way down to particle phsyics.... (the short version of my theory) Life is bound to arise (given the right environment) as any material that can self-replicate (the basis for cellular life) should proliferate more over time. Cooperation and communication (whether it be chemical, electrical, or other) leads to multi celled organisms having an advantage, which leads to more complex systems... more variation, mutation, etc, the strong survive and breed, and their characteristics getted passed on... Every so often the process leaps an order of magnitude (as in the transition from atom to molecule, molecule to cell, cell to organism..) It is the possible that the development of human thought was the beginning of the next leap (which enabled a new form of interaction and communication) and, who knows, maybe we are on the way to becoming multi-individual organisms (for lack of a better word) connected through networks like the Internet (it does sound a little trekkie, but i'm talkin millions of years). The rules that hold all of this together are like fractal patterns... they repeat over and over ad infinitum but never exactly the same. IMO, if there is a G-D, these pattern are akin his fingerprint, but to trivialize him down to biblical type stories doesn't suit me. K.. end of rant. I am wondering about your distinction between micro and macro evolution, what do you mean?