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

To: Bill Fischofer who wrote (15588)	6/16/2003 11:51:39 AM
From: 2MAR$	Respond to of 28931

That special on the Discovery Channel on the Caveman was fairly fascinatingly done....actually exceptional I thought ... when the several lines of our near predecessors through that vast amount of time and the slow gradual learning curve mounting up. The forces pitted against them ...almost one million years , and they couldn't get beyond the hand held ax ...well those lines failed . just unbelievable to think back on how much time is really involved here , and what has transpired in just the last century from libraries in buildings , to libraries on the Internet...and space. All starting from many 1000's upon thousands of nights staring into the fires ...and shaping the world with our thoughts and it shaping us . This program pretty much puts the lights out on Creationism ...unless they learn to see along these vaster lines of time. thank heaven .

To: Bill Fischofer who wrote (15588)	6/18/2003 4:51:00 PM
From: briskit	Respond to of 28931

Non-zero has this to say re: human history. ...You can capture history's basic trajectory by reference to a core pattern: New technologies arise (and I think he says the same thing about organic and genetic development) that permit or encourage new, richer forms of non-zero-sum interaction; then (for intelligible reasons grounded ultimately in human nature) social structures evolve that realize this rich potential--that convert non-zero-sum situations into positive sums. Thus does social complexity grow in scope and depth......Still, on balance, over the long run, non-zero-sum situations produce more positive sums than negative sums, more mutual benefit than parasitism. As a result, people become imbedded in larger and richer webs of interdependence. This basic sequence had started happening at least as early as 15,000 years ago. Again, and again, and again, until -voila - here we are. That sounds to me like choices operating for positive direction, and gaining momentum in that direction in the process. BTW, I will be gone on vacation for awhile. Ya'll be cool. Mike