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


To: cosmicforce who wrote (19246)2/10/2005 2:28:17 AM
From: 2MAR$  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 28931
 
Evolution...from a poet's pov....from previous post .

enjoy!

;-)

I want to tell you the ocean knows this, that life in its
jewel boxes
is endless as the sand, impossible to count, pure,
and among the blood-colored grapes time has made the
petal
hard and shiny, made the jellyfish full of light
and untied its knot, letting its musical threads fall
from a horn of plenty made of infinite mother-of-pearl.

I am nothing but the empty net which has gone on ahead
of human eyes, dead in those darknesses,
of fingers accustomed to the triangle, longitudes
on the timid globe of an orange.

I walked around as you do, investigating
the endless star,
and in my net, during the night, I woke up naked,
the only thing caught, a fish trapped inside the wind.


Pablo Neruda , "Enigmas"
poemhunter.com

;-)



To: cosmicforce who wrote (19246)2/10/2005 9:40:58 AM
From: TigerPaw  Respond to of 28931
 
modern arguments for acquired traits

In some aspects intelligence opens the way for acquired traits. Take for example sugery to repair heart valves or steriod use to gain strength. These are acquired, but made possible by the brain power encoded in DNA.

As to where particular traits are encoded...
Don't know yet, but the gene companies are working hard to figure it out.

TP